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Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

• jshzglr 4y ago
  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 4y ago
    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
• atonse 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving HN, my home on the internet. I can’t express enough gratitude for all this site has given to me, from the knowledge, the eye opening perspectives, knowing that I’m not alone in my insatiable curiosity about the world, and also being an exemplar for high quality discourse on the internet. Wishing you many good times with loved ones.
• tux 4y ago
  Thanks HN for been a gateway to the internet! This is the best social news site online! Thank you to all writers and readers! Happy thanksgiving to all!
• IronRod 4y ago
  Grateful, yes, for rediscovering this great resource for interesting news. So many other sources have succumbed to sensationalism and have become mostly "click bait". Thank you to all the contributors, the admins and developers, and everyone who makes this enjoyable resource popular.
• tarofchaos 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at HN! I am a long-time lurker. This is the best place to know and learn about the latest and greatest. I am thankful for all the posts and comments. I echo the overall sentiment here that this is the only place on the internet where I would rather be. My day starts with HN and ends with it. Thanks to the fantastic team at HN, which keeps everything running smoothly.
• prdpx7 4y ago
  I have been on HN since last 10 years. This community has inspired me to learn and build stuff – just for the heck of it. I just wish you folks all the happiness and strength in the world. Happy Thanksgiving ♥
• amruthreddi 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving HN.
• O__________O 4y ago
  Thanks Dang!! Happy Thanksgiving HN!!!
• siverson914 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving! :)
• nateb2022 4y ago
  Thank you! Happy thanksgiving!!
• jalino23 4y ago
  happy thanks giving!! thank you so much for the knowledge HN!!!
• pirate787 4y ago
  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.
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• ravenstine 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving to all! HN is definitely near the top of things I'm thankful for.
• joshmanders 4y ago
  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.
  • barbarr 4y ago
    Best of luck, hope things get better! <3
  • fontinalis 4y ago
    Wish you all the bests! Hope things are getting better :)
  • deanmostard 4y ago
    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.
  • holler 4y ago
    Time heals all, be kind to yourself. Happy Thanksgiving.
• coolbreezetft22 4y ago
• SnoweKari 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for HN!!!
• hprotagonist 4y ago
  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 4y ago
    Arlo Guthrie's song is an important part of my Thanksgiving day tradition.
• Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving y'all from upstate New York... Let the family arguments commence!!
• tumidpandora 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving HN fam!
• vanilla_nut 4y ago
  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.
• Kerima 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you so much
• balls187 4y ago
  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.
• zzzzzzzza 4y ago
  happy thanksgiving \\//,
• swlkr 4y ago
  Feels good to ask people what they're grateful for, taking a moment to think and be a little more introspective is nice.
• rubicon33 4y ago
  I’m grateful for: The opportunities that this industry has provided me. I’m grateful for my wife. I’m grateful for my health.
  • xeromal 4y ago
    So say we all
• melenaboija 4y ago
  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 4y ago
    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 4y ago
  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.
• monetus 4y ago
  Hope everyone has a good one. Any recipes to share?
• pjmorris 4y ago
  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!
  • yuppiepuppie 4y ago
    +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 4y ago
    Thankful for HN and all of you!
  • wffurr 4y ago
    > 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.
  • eigenhombre 4y ago
    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 4y ago
      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 https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js
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• JKCalhoun 4y ago
  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.)
  • atonse 4y ago
    Totally agree. TG is my favorite holiday and in fact one (in spirit) that I would hope becomes global. Taking a day to just be around family and feel grateful for what you have, is worth doing.
• Minor49er 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
• gnicholas 4y ago
  Thankful for the mods here, especially @dang!
• Kellyhnsn 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!! Thank you
• kevmo314 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm grateful for all the cool projects I get to see through HN :)
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• pacomerh 4y ago
  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.
• kodon 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving!
• dzink 4y ago
  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!!!
• Kudotap 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving to dang and to the HN community
• aizyuval 4y ago
  Thanks to everyone for the kind support and sharing of your wisdom.
• birdies 4y ago
  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 4y ago
    > Sometimes I don't feel smart enough to be here That’s exactly why it’s a great place to hang around though.
  • sph 4y ago
    When I created my account 11 years ago I thought I wasn't that smart either. Then I got older and cocky and figured out we're all pretending to be smart :) Welcome!
  • silisili 4y ago
    Same, on a lot of topics. But if you love learning, you never want to be the smartest person in the room. Online or at work. I actually enjoy the times someone takes the time to correct me instead of just downvoting.
• muhammadusman 4y ago
  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.
• danso 4y ago
  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.
• creativeCak3 4y ago
  Thank you all so much for making this space on the internet one of the best places to learn and share knowledge. Gracias :)
• thoughtstheseus 4y ago
  Thanks everyone. You make my days better :)
• dopeboy 4y ago
  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.
  • spoils19 4y ago
    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 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 and https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tptacek 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.
• s5300 4y ago
  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.
• werber 4y ago
  I’m thankful for having a place that is vaguely social media but I learn things I wouldn’t have otherwise.
• notjoemama 4y ago
  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!
• prhn 4y ago
  To me, HN delivers on what I'd hoped the internet would largely become. Happy Thanksgiving
• attilaberczik 4y ago
  Thank you to you as well
• agomez314 4y ago
  Discovering HN has given me a better education than my masters degree
• sph 4y ago
  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 4y ago
    +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.
  • tomcam 4y ago
    > I mean it when I say that software engineering as a career would not be as fun if HN didn't exist. I wanted to make gentle fun of this then realized I feel exactly the same way
• spinlock_ 4y ago
  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.
• cheerioty 4y ago
  Looking forward to my very first thanksgiving today! (currently visiting the Bay Area from Sydney)
• philipkiely 4y ago
  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.
• raasdnil 4y ago
  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.
• Balgair 4y ago
  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.
  • atonse 4y ago
    Sending you a hacker hug wherever you are, friend! Hope you feel better soon and can give your loved ones many hugs again.
• bob1029 4y ago
  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.
• luvz2code 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving to all of you posters and commenters. I'm a passive reader here, but I wanted to say thank you to all of you who share their knowledge and wisdom and help me to learn new things on a daily basis. The comments here are almost always more informative than the link itself.
• akoster 4y ago
  Happy Thanksgiving! May your thoughts be considerate, your stomachs be full, and your wallets not too empty (especially after this weekend)! Thanks for being an awesome, kind and thought-provoking bunch!