Happy 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 t

Happy 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.