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Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
I have been really thankful for hackernews. This place has been full of great knowledge and people.
I really appreciate the efforts of the people who are running this platform.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
- hereforphone 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving. Please remember that regardless of the "difficulties" the western world is facing now, you have it better than almost everyone on the planet. I've been to some of the poorest countries on earth in war and peace. Never take anything for granted. Please be safe, and be thankful.
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- plainOldText 5y agoI – like other people have reported – have grown tremendously intellectually by reading HN through the years. Happy Thanksgiving!
- knaik94 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving y'all
- 5555624 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving everyone.
- Toobam 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving day family. I love you all here. May the gods of tech be with you all.
- bob1029 5y agoThere is no other place like this on the internet. I would like to thank everyone who visits this site and participates in these excellent conversation threads. Extra special thanks to dang for keeping all of these cats in 1 bag.
- khazhoux 5y agoHappy National Day Of Mourning, everyone! https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/25/us/national-day-of-mourning-race-deconstructed-newsletter/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/25/us/national-day-of-mourning-r...
- embit 5y agoYes happy thanks giving HNers. This is the only place I visit multiple times a day and each visit is educational. Thanks
- NotPractical 5y agoIt's pleasant to see something like this on here mixed in with all the technical posts. Happy thanksgiving!
- senectus1 5y agohows this thankful thing work? is it a specifically Christian thing or is it secular? I'm peripherally aware it has something to do with (North American first nation) Indians and early settlers plus it tends to involve feasting on turkey and pumpkin dishes.
- sakopov 5y agoI mean, you clearly know exactly what the holiday is about. What's the point of your comment?
- pdonis 5y ago> is it a specifically Christian thing or is it secular? As far as the US holiday is concerned, it's secular, by which I mean it is celebrated by pretty much everybody regardless of religious persuasion (or lack thereof).
- eru 5y agoThanksgiving is a bit like Christmas Eve. It's the evening before Black Friday.
- grp000 5y agoNow, let us pray to the one True God of the United States, Consumerism.
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- skissane 5y agoIt is Christian in origin, albeit a minor local Christian tradition (developed in the US) rather than a major near-universal one. Like many Christian traditions, it has been secularised, just as Christmas has been. I think the big difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas, is the Christian origins of the later are much harder to forget. That’s why relatively few Jews (for example) are willing to celebrate Christmas even in a wholly secularised form, whereas the majority of American Jews have no problem with celebrating Thanksgiving-Christmas is still identified with its Christian origins in a way in which Thanksgiving is not. That said, not all American Jews do view Thanksgiving as acceptable. Among ultra-Orthodox Jews, the belief is widespread that celebrating Thanksgiving violates Jewish religious law against observing non-Jewish festivals. Likewise, some conservative Muslims (Salafis in particular) view Thanksgiving as haram for parallel reasons. You might say these Jewish and Muslim objectors are paying more attention to the festival’s Christian origins than most Americans do. Thanksgiving isn’t the only example of a minor American Christian tradition being secularised - the same is true of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Unlike Thanksgiving, which is rarely observed outside of North America, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day have spread to most of the rest of the English-speaking world, even if not always on the same date. Many cultures have indigenous traditions of festivals to celebrate motherhood and/or fatherhood, going back centuries or more; but in Anglophone countries, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are generally American in origin, and only date to the 20th century, not due to one of those older traditions.
- cirrus3 5y agoAgree. As much as this place drives up my anxiety and displeasure everyday, it is still my #1 source for news that I care to hear about. Kind of a low bar, but hey, still above the bar =)
- DoreenMichele 5y agoHN is the best place I've found to discuss medical stuff in a serious and sciency manner, for which I am endlessly grateful.
- eru 5y agoYou might like https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ and Slate Star Codex.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoAh yes, the people who keep promoting ivermectin despite a mountain of evidence that it doesn't do what they wish it would. The idea that something is effective in one place but not in another, because although similar it's different in several important ways, seems to just be too much for them. It's unfortunate, really. It's also amazing to me that these people don't seem to have thought of the most obvious proof that it doesn't work: a publicly traded American big pharma company is saying very clearly "do not buy our product for treating COVID-19". One of the most distressing things to me about the last 2 years is the bright line that has been drawn under the innumeracy of the general population of the world. https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use...
- dang 5y ago"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- area51org 5y agoLet's be thankful for being alive. EDIT: "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." –Carl Sagan
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoI wonder what Carl Sagan would say about Black Friday.
- sbuccini 5y agoThinking about all the folks on call for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday crush. They were some of my favorite days working in e-commerce but, then again, everything always went smoothly during my tenure. Thanks for holding down the fort for the rest of us!
- enahs-sf 5y agoWas up at 1:30am fixing that blocker in production last night. Never a dull moment!
- exikyut 5y agoAw, what was it? (Roughly)
- enahs-sf 5y agoBug in the Black Friday promo code logic that made the deal unavailable. No bueno.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoThanks to you, and everyone who is on call today!
- throwanem 5y agoI've been in that trench too. I'm thankful to be out of it, and able to enjoy the festivities without always having an ear out for that PagerDuty ringtone. (EAS tones, I always used, the SAME FSK chirps followed by the attention tone. Wake the dead, that will. If you never want to miss a page again - and never want anyone in earshot to doubt it's important, besides - give it a try! Bonus side effect: you'll immediately be in the correct frame of mind if the real balloon ever goes up.)
- exikyut 5y ago853 + 960Hz? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbegB49B1TY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbegB49B1TY (If you do check, maybe turn it down to be nice to your nerves :D)
- waleedamer 5y agoHappy thanksgiving!!!
- systemvoltage 5y agoInteresting bunch, thanks for good discussion and thanks to the HN team.
- splch 5y agodiscovered this site this year! super thankful for that :)
- josh2600 5y agoHackernews is simultaneously the most cantankerous and, imho, highest quality response on average public forum on the net. I absolutely love it here and sincerely appreciate this place. I feel like I’ve grown up on this site in so many ways. I am continually humbled by not just the consistent quality of content but also the comments. It’s a testament to the moderators that this site has maintained this level of quality for so long. I am thankful and happy to use thanksgiving as an excuse to express that notion.
- codetrotter 5y agoHN is a great place to learn new things. And new words! This is the first time I’ve ever heard the word “cantankerous” :)
- psalminen 5y agoAgreed. I can think of a few words off hand I learned here. Rejoinder has probably been my favorite.
- didericis 5y agoCan often learn the most words from the magniloquence of cantankerous rejoinders. I’m actually just as thankful for all the words I don’t have to learn here. This is often the first place I go to when I want to look for a distilled, “real” take on something by people capable of communicating with a lot of jargon but generally choose to speak simply and succinctly.
- xbar 5y agoThis resonates for me.
- silisili 5y agoIt's definitely one of the only places on the internet where you can ask a question or insult something, and have either the creator or most renown SME pop out of nowhere to explain everything. Never seen anything quite like it in any other field of interest I have.
- arpa 5y agoHappy United States Holiday to you too good fellow. I hope to live to see greetings for obscure Ghana holiday on the front page as well. Yeah I got karma to burn, but this is the hill i want to die on. Too many a good place went to ruin due to eternal septemberites coming from one place geographically and inadvertedly creating a monoculture. I get that ycombinator is US based, but hacker culture is so much more than just US.
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoI really do not understand why someone's comment about how Native Americans view thanksgiving, and my response to it, got flagged. Is it off topic? Is my concern for consumerism over Black Friday not relevant? I understand it's not a cheerful subject but there are many historical aspects of this holiday that are in fact not cheerful. I found it unsettling to see pure positivity when to me this feels like a day of mourning. I thought it appropriate to discuss, or is there some rule in violation?
- thepasswordis 5y agoJust to be blunt: because eventually nobody wants to hear it anymore. This has been an extremely brutal couple of years for everybody, and by most estimations the brutality is going to continue. People want something to be happy about, and the idea of sharing things they're thankful for is that. You don't need to take that from them.
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoHistorically, American's have never wanted to hear the truth about what the colonists did to the indigenous people of America. I would not say this is a recent phenomenon. But giving ourselves a pass to forget it allows us to perpetuate the violence against indigenous people.
- throwaway984393 5y agoIt's one of the unspoken rules here ("Thou shalt not bring up painful or inconvenient truths", related to "Thou shalt not be controversial in a way that doesn't reinforce our beliefs"). But now you're violating an actual rule too ("Thou shalt not comment on being downvoted/flagged").
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- DoreenMichele 5y agoFlags are typically by users, not staff. I hesitated to leave my comment here because I'm part Native and aware that it's complicated. The kind of comment you left is not the best way to broach such subjects. I would like to see more articles about Natives generally without focusing overly much on the victim narrative. I think I'm alive in part because of my Native heritage, for which I am also deeply grateful. My other comment that I'm talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29338387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29338387
- exdsq 5y agoFirst thanksgiving in the US. My wife and I have stocked up on some of the worst looking pre-made things from Safeway to easily make tomorrow so neither of us have to cook. Excited to have a long weekend :) Enjoy yours too!
- elguyosupremo 5y agoThe most important part of Thanksgiving is spending time with the people you care about, the food is all secondary; it sounds like you're doing things right. That being said, in the future I recommend seeking out the best pies that you can, my personal favorites are blueberry and apple. Welcome to America and happy Thanksgiving!
- eric4smith 5y agoAs an Immigrant to the USA, I did not get the whole thanksgiving thing. But then as I had a kid there, I warmed up to it. Then now I've been living abroad for almost 10 years without returning home to the USA and if I did not see this post I would not even have remembered. It's strange how we can so quickly adjust to holidays from different countries in just a few years -- while forgetting the ones back home so easily. And it's not because we were ingrained with them as kids, because while I grew up in Jamaica, I've totally forgotten the holidays there now. I guess the main one is Christmas - it's hard to forget because of all the shopping - and that's kinda celebrated here in Asia too. Anyway... Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
- busymom0 5y agoIn the same boat myself. I immigrated from india to Canada many years ago and since then, Christmas is the only one I can actually remember and usually celebrate. The other traditional ones like Diwali, Durga Puja, Holi, Eid etc are all forgotten to me unless my family reminds me of it.
- bufordtwain 5y agoUK immigrant to the USA here. I heard about and celebrated Diwali for the first time this year (by going out for Indian food). I'm up for any and all holidays. Especially ones that involve food and no other commitments :) Happy Thanksgiving to all!
- kingcharles 5y agoHello fellow expat. The American holiday that amuses me is July 4th as that is basically "Fuck The British" day.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoI can relate as I am an immigrant as well. I do not know if it is me getting older or the fact this year was especially eventful ( new title, first baby ), but, despite all the stuff going on in the world today, I feel especially thankful. It is funny, because only few years ago I was more cynical about it and reduced all holidays to the 'feast' part.
- andrew_ 5y agoCitizen of the Earth, member of the Cherokee Nation - let us not forget the spirit of the day. Everyone viewing this post has something to be thankful for. Be humble, be kind. Happy Thanksgiving.
- theonething 5y ago> be kind Likewise to you.
- DeathArrow 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving to all Americans!
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- DeathArrow 5y agoWhy the downvote? Not everybody here is from US.
- sul_tasto 5y agoCan’t say I agree with the downvote. Nevertheless, even though Thanksgiving is a US holiday, the spirit of Thanksgiving is to invite and include everyone. You don’t have to be a US citizen to celebrate Thanksgiving.
- vmception 5y agoIt’s a nice reason to recollect what you are thankful for or can be as other people share To me i can appreciate that far more than worrying about the origin story, but the version thats told is inspirational too
- thepasswordis 5y agoHappy thanksgiving, HN! Hoping for a safe and happy weekend for everyone, and praying for anybody daring to brave an airport! Good luck, and reminder: take as much leftovers home as you possibly can. Stuffing a Hawaiian roll full of cold turkey and cranberry sauce and eating it over the sink is a godly act. For those of you who have to work to keep this giant machine running, just be aware: legally you are allowed to have one drink at your desk at all times during the holiday weekend. I don't make the rules.
- gwill 5y ago"Stuffing a Hawaiian roll full of cold turkey and cranberry sauce and eating it over the sink is a godly act." what i would pay for that experience while walking home after a night out.
- dudus 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope you can spend some time with family this holidays. You are all beautiful, bickering, nerds. And I love you all.
- protomyth 5y agoFor those that are alone, remember the world is full of serendipity and the desolate years can change. For those in groups, be thankful for those you break bread with and the paths that led them to your table.
- tentacleuno 5y agoSome people are both at the same time. You can be in a social group yet feel bitterly alone at the same time. That's essentially what I used to feel like.
- Shared404 5y agoThat's a hard place to be in, for those in that situation, know that at least one internet stranger cares enough to chat for a bit - emails in my bio. Can't promise to respond instantly, but will respond before I go to bed tonight.
- Tokelin 5y agoI may not celebrate Thanksgiving (not American) but I would still like to say thanks to hacker news. I don't remember how long ago I discovered it, but it's been an amazing journey. Let it never end. Thank you to this amazing community.
- aspenmayer 5y agoThank you, HN, one and all. You’re my favorite online place.
- omot 5y agoThanks dang! Hopefully they'll give you a promotion soon, maybe some equity in YC companies! Maybe you'll even let us implement dark mode on Hacker News soon. ;) You the real one!
- freetinker 5y agoYup, thanks Dang!
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- michaelsbradley 5y agoWe give Thee thanks, almighty God, for all Thy benefits, who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen. May the Lord grant us His peace and life everlasting. Amen. Happy Thanksgiving!
- yrral 5y agoI've been a HN member for 11 years and 11 months to this exact day (I joined Christmas 2009). Since then, I've lived in 6 different cities, 5 different timezones and worked on countless side projects. But all this time, HN has always been my most visited month after month. I can always count on this place to keep me up to date with the latest tech trends and read discussions between reasonable people. Thank you all and especially dang for keeping discussions high quality. Especially as the quality of content on the rest of the internet deteriorates in the pursuit of virility. It's a testament to you all that place feels the same as it did 10+ years ago.
- kilroy123 5y agoSame here! My account is about the same age, and I've lived abroad all over the world. Hackernews always helped me feel grounded and connected to the tech world and community at large.
- mbroncano 5y agoSame for me, most probably this account is about 10 years old or so, but I’ve been lurking for even longer.
- spurgu 5y agoAlmost 9 years 9 months here, 5 cities, 4 countries, 3 timezones. :)
- authed 5y agoHappy thanksgiving, Hackers! https://www.dinneratthezoo.com/spatchcock-turkey/ https://www.dinneratthezoo.com/spatchcock-turkey/
- eganist 5y agoThis is nice, and I'm glad you posted it, and I'm glad it's still up. Happy thanksgiving! And for non-Americans wondering what it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving Controversy around origin aside, hey at least the spirit of it is nice.
- tehlike 5y agoWe recently learned our friend's 9-month-old was diagnosed with leukemia. I have a two year old daughter, and cant even imagine the pain they are going through. This year, I am thankful for being healthy as a family, and i am praying for the kid. That's all.
- tjpnz 5y agoTo all those saying it's a strictly American affair I would point out that Japan also has it's own version on the same week. Happy Labor Thanksgiving Day everyone!
- mynegation 5y agoThank you Dan Gackle for making this site my happy place, the only place on the internet that I read every day. Thank you all for posting and upvoting the interesting stories. Thank you for replying to my comments. Thank you for upvoting them. Thank you for downvoting them, too. I come here to learn and be amazed at knowledge, creativity, and kindness.
- christophilus 5y agodang does a dang good job. He’s corrected me a few times for posting unhelpful, snarky, or dismissive comments. His care and vigilance really makes this the best forum on the web that I’m aware of.
- rsj_hn 5y agodang good egg, confirmed. Happy Thanksgiving!
- randycupertino 5y agoI always like how even when people are so cranky and rude to him because they're complaining about whatever they disagree with, he's always so respectful and thoughtful back. It's rather amusing to see a mod rule via benevolent kindness instead of like a petty HOA president :P
- rwbhn 5y agoHear, hear! Happy Thanksgiving, all. Hope you are able to spend time with family and friends.
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- newbie789 5y agoI’ll upvote that. Being a mod is a difficult and nearly completely thankless (but utterly necessary) job, he’s got a good attitude and consistent enforcement of the rules. Cheers dang!
- sheetbird 5y agoThis site is poison. Very pretentious, Silicon Valley try-hards. Please downvote me you delicate geniuses!
- sheetbird 5y agohappy
- teruakohatu 5y agoHappy thanksgiving. This is such a wonderful community that I am so pleased to be part of.
- relwin 5y agoMy Thanksgiving Bullet Enumerated List: 1) I'm thankful my elderly parents and in-laws are healthy and survived the worst of the pandemic. 2) I'm thankful new relatives are healthy and thriving (who doesn't adore babies?) 3) I'm thankful my immediate family is OK. Zoom-schooling and masking is not ideal but we adjusted and adapted. 4) I'm in awe of the medical professionals who withstood the brunt of the pandemic and continue to provide for our well-being. 5) And the technologists that support the medical professionals -- the those who build the tools, design the scientific instruments, operate the equipment, push the tech to incrementally do more -- all this seems like magic but is comprised of late night debugging, inspired insight, that blood-sweat-beers workpersonship that keeps society chugging along.
- Ccecil 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving. Eat some food, love your fellow humans but most importantly. Thank you to all the Opensource Devs
- tartoran 5y agoHappy TG HN, Dang and PG
- Huhty 5y agoRight back at ya!
- busymom0 5y agoWe had the Canadian thanksgiving few weeks ago. Happy thanksgiving to all my American friends and family!
- ryan0x00 5y agoMuch love. Happy thanksgiving <3
- rackjack 5y agoIn terms of Hacker News specific gratitude, I am thankful for the deep and diverse level of experience lots of people on here possess, and the moderators who enable these voices to rise to the top.
- kaladin_1 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving Everyone. I am grateful for this platform, the moderators and all contributors. Thank you Dan. I remember when I was new here. I was impressed and equally challenged by the achievements of people here. One of my first questions was how I could get a good remote job. Dan replied and informed me about the Whoishiring account. He sounded very positive and even wished me good luck. I felt so motivated and eventually used it to secure a remote work that I really like.
- dang 5y agoYay! I love it when HN has positive effects on people's real lives. It did that for me too, long before I became a moderator here. Thank you, PG.
- rnoorda 5y agoI was recently in a meeting with a colleague about some recent craziness that just finished. A lot of hard work, not fun, but ended up just fine. Then a few minutes later, I find out her daughter is in the hospital, so she's been back-and-forth there a lot, and her life is exponentially more crazy than my own. I felt terrible for complaining about my dumb issues. Work's hard sometimes, but it's so small in comparison. The upside of the conversation is that I've felt extra thankful this year- I have friends/family/coworkers going through sickness, abuse, divorce, coming out of the closet, and more, and it puts my concerns in perspective. My life is far from perfect, but I'm grateful for what I do have. I know very little about any of you personally, but I hope you continue to share your knowledge, wisdom, dumb anecdotes, and opinions both great and terrible.
- tickerticker 5y agoMeta cognition right der
- midasuni 5y agoThat was 2 months ago
- dt3ft 5y agoI am very thankful for being alive and for getting to experience this world, no matter how cruel it may be at times. I survived 4 years of war that begun when I was 9 years old in the 90s. There is plenty to be thankful for. Happy thanksgiving!
- TuneG 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving Everyone.
- nickpp 5y agoI am not American, but I give thanks today that USA exists. Because, for all its failings, it still is such an inspiration for how things can be great in the world and how a dream for a future in which we are so much more than we are today - can exist. Happy Thanksgiving!
- ablekh 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving! I appreciate this community and wish everyone all the best this holiday season and beyond.
- unkulunkulu 5y agoI’m from another culture and this is a FIRST thanksgiving for me :) This place has been not only enjoyable and absolutely blowing away for me because of all the great people who participated in key events for our industry and provided first hand perspective on something I only remotely heard of before. But the warm inclusive accepting and encouraging atmosphere here is totally something else on the internets nowadays, thank every single one of you for that. And a cherry on top, one of the book recommendations here changed my life in ways I could not have imagined, so you’re all very special for me, hope to be a part of this big and warm community for the years to come, thank you for your precious time and attention!
- shill 5y agoDo you mind sharing the name of the book?
- unkulunkulu 5y agoIt’s Keith Johnston Improv. It really helped me to become friends with my subconscious, imagination, destroy some assumptions about myself, reframe my view of children, of course laid a stone into my decision to have a child (like this year as opposed to “eventually” or some day as I started interacting with children after reading the book), showed me a cool hobby and a new way to express myself as an event organizer. I have like 240 highlights and notes in it, more than in any other book by far, it was really a book written just for me at that point in life, you know? It also has a bit of a twist towards the end. Highly recommend! I’m 33 if this provides some context I dunno :)
- unkulunkulu 5y agoOh there’s also a TED talk by the man, you can totally see he is something else by watching it and comparing to other TED talks. Makes more sense of you read the book though.
- neoncontrails 5y agoGosh, this was beautiful to read as an incidentally American person. There's something truly healing in giving thanks, in calling attention to the countless small acts of kindness without which we wouldn't be where we are today. The holiday itself is so freighted with the weight of our history, but the premise seems good. It actually seems to me more humanist, less materialistic and less secular, than any other holiday on the Western calendar.
- enimodas 5y agoLet's try to not go shopping this year so those retail workers can also have a happy thanksgiving.
- stephenitis 5y agoI am thankful for this community helping largely stay off normal news sources and providing me with healthy discussion to jog my brain in some long ass Austrian lockdowns. Thanks everyone & HN staff
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- atlasunshrugged 5y agoHappy thanksgiving, thanks to everyone who makes this an informative and interesting place and especially thanks to Dang for the usually thankless job of moderating tough discussions!
- larodi 5y agoMost honest gratitude to all of you who contribute with incredible comments and valuable insights in the comments section!
- jonplackett 5y agoPretty much the only place on the internet where the comments are as intelligent and informative - or more so - than the articles themselves. Actually, that’s probably a much higher bar than needs leaping over - it’s pretty much the only place where the comments aren’t just a bunch of hate filled bile.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y agoMy daily news fix converged to just two sources - HN and Daily Science telegram channels. Thank you guys for liberating me from the Reddit hell!
- goblinux 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving y'all!
- barrenko 5y agoHN and coding is keeping me sane since March 2020. Thank you OP and everyone on HN.
- Dumblydorr 5y agoToday, I am thankful for all of the technologists who made the greatest tool of all time: the computer. And here's to the greatest language of all time: VBA. Haha just kidding, it's obviously Rust. Or is it? Hehehehe. Just getting my snarky comment practice in before the family dinner. Alright, I'm off to bake a sweet potato souffle!
- drakonka 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving! There is no Thanksgiving in my country, but I have been reflecting on my work life as we approach the end of the year and I'm really thankful for having gotten to spend 14 happy years working with a bunch of different, interesting tech stacks.
- rajasimon 5y agoHappy thanksgiving HN. I'm living in India and recently got the US company offer through HackerNews. It's truely one of the best forum that I recommend to my friends and families. Stay safe!
- meken 5y agoI am thankful for the recent Ask HN thread where the guy mentioned he feels dumb and lazy. I found it very relatable and it caused good introspection on my part as well.
- oschvr 5y agoI got hired through Hacker News, thanks to this forum !
- b3lvedere 5y agoHappy thanksgiving everyone!
- rfreytag 5y agoYes! Happy thanksgiving to all y'all (especially you dang)!
- yawnxyz 5y agoHappy thanksgiving!! I actually find stuff and learn stuff on here that's relevant to both my personal and professional development. Stuff I've learned here includes: how to manage my own time better and make better decisions, how to do better code testing, lots of pro- and anti- crypto stuff, and a ton more. I've also discovered things like Svelte JS, CUE Lang, and a ton of other tools I use daily. So thanks, HN!!
- TheBigLebowski 5y agoNon-American but I do truly appreciate any holiday that puts emphasis on taking stock of what, and who, you are lucky enough to have in your life. Keep on hacking and posting folks, and I'll remain thankful for many years to come!
- OMGCable 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving everyone!
- bhu1st 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving all. I'm from Kathmandu, Nepal we celebrate something similar around October, called Dashain, the spirit is the same. Family time, good food and being thankful for what we have.
- swader999 5y agoHappy for some. We're only allowed to have gatherings of six people. Up to twenty for funerals. Sadly, our beloved family pet turkey passed away yesterday.
- chainwax 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving! Hackernews has been a godsend for me and my success as a software engineer is owed in part to this forum. I grew up the son of an English teacher. As a kid, I was always encouraged to look up words I didn't know in the dictionary. I do the same thing here, just replace words with topics and the dictionary with Google. The sheer amount of topics that I now know "enough to have a conversation about" is insane. On posts about new versions of libraries, frameworks, languages, services, etc, it is not uncommon to see members of the teams that built them chatting about it in the comments. Hearing from developers directly rather than release notes or marketing dribble is so refreshing. The holy wars that go on in comments sections are also always entertaining. Honestly, those are probably my favorite part. I've never found a board/community online that is as high quality, informative in topics I care about, or entertaining as this one. I'm thankful for HN, the mods, and the community here.
- m0llusk 5y agoAn interesting game, mr_o47. The only winning move is to play.
- randycupertino 5y agoThank you hacker news commentors for being more thoughtful, insightful, and well-spoken than people commenting on Reddit! Always enjoy and appreciate the discussions and threads on here and love finding interesting articles and thought-provoking commentary. Additionally, truly appreciate the text-based interface!
- kodon 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving back at you
- rcconf 5y agoThank you all, HN is a fantastic community.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agothis->gratitude++; // thank you (almost) all!
- rookderby 5y agoI am thankful for this site, and the awesome comments from users. I'm really thankful for comments with sources and that a lot of users follow the guidelines [1]. It makes for interesting reading. Thanks for a place I can read something new on every day. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- teddyh 5y agoThanksgiving? I guess next up is President’s Day? Columbus Day?
- primitivesuave 5y agoIt's been over 8 years for me with you wonderful people, thank you all so much for the immeasurable wisdom you have imparted over the years.
- b20000 5y agothanks, and happy thanksgiving to you as well and everyone else here. apart from the occasional ranting and bitching this has been a very nice place.
- sakopov 5y agoMy 10th year on HN after several years lurking. There is no better place on internet. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Stay healthy, be kind and count your blessings.
- Zensynthium 5y agoHappy thanksgiving everyone! Proud to be a part of the community. Been here for about a year now and I'm looking forward to another one with you all!
- myohmy 5y agoHappy turkey day everyone! I hope your turkey comes out better than mine did...
- ionwake 5y agoHappy thanksgiving dang and to all of you
- jollybean 5y agoHappy 'American' Thanksgiving. :)
- app4soft 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving, Y'all! #np “Your job is my smile”[0] [0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1464011349885870091 https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1464011349885870091
- maxcx 5y agoHappy Thanksgiving!
- Russelfuture 5y agoYes, absolutely, I want to say this also. Hacker News / Ycombinator is very fine and excellent. Thanx for running this site. It is unique, the format is genius simple, and I learn and discover things here I would otherwise have no knowledge of. We are in rural location in Canada, coming in via Starlink now. The internet is critical for us. It is our economic, social and scientific link to the world. Sites of the quality of Hacker News are rare now. If we ever manage to get to and live on Mars, I hope we can have satellite relay link to HN. Happy Thanxgiving to everyone. And best of luck for everyone's future projects!
- Skunkleton 5y agoThis is a great time to be thankful for what make HN great for me. Thanks Dang!
- jayolden 5y agoI have read and learned a lot of things throughout my stay here in HN. I am hoping to learn more things in the future. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
- mayankkaizen 5y agoI am not a technocrat by any means. I don't even work any engineering company, much less software company. In last 5 years, I've stopped using Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. In my real life, I have absolutely nobody to talk about anything which is remotely intellectual or technology. Heck, I can't even talk about great movies, books and music. Have been suffering from depression practically all my life While living such a life, HN is THE ONLY place where I get some sort of satisfaction. This is the only place where I find practically everyone smarter than me. This is the only place where people can discuss stuffs without any agenda, propaganda, hate or anything like that. This is the only place where comments offer better insights than the posted article. This is one of only two website (other is wikipedia) where people's positive efforts show up. This site has actually made me a critical thinker. People talk about stuffs, even about non technological topics, which people in my real life don't even have any clue about. This is the only place where I have to think thrice before commenting anything. I mean I can rarely add anything to discussion which is better than other posts. There is so much to learn here. And Dang, you are a great moderator. You are taking good care of this beautiful garden called HN. Thank you HN and all the members. You guys don't realize how much change you bring in lives of people like me who have no direct connection to 'intellectual' world.
- 0x008 5y agoI fear the day when hacker news will be gone. I will probably never again be able to keep up with developments in the tech space.