The grit, curiosity, and people building things have always been inspiring.

Thanks for all the discussions over the years.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Is SCRUM really as great as its evangelists claim? Let's read HN comments.

What are good use cases for UML? Let's check out HN.

Does anyone actually care about CoCoMo or CMMI? Let's read ... oh - nearly nobody's talking about it there. Maybe it won't be that relevant to the students.

cheers to all you glorious bastards. i disagree with you on most things and quibble over pettiest crap, but know it is all in good fun. we are prolly in the weirdest point in computer history and get to see it make it through ( or not.. either is fine ). its a secret, but those annual affirtation are one of my favorite traditions.

here is to all the fun convos yet to come.

Be sure to give your parents (and other seniors in your life) a phishing and subscriptions checkup this weekend!

https://edisoncode.com/articles/holiday-phone-safety-guide-f...

Thanks to the moderators, commenters and the whole community for building and maintaining this space of the internet and adding some value to my day!

Here's to another 6+ years!

I don’t remember kids being out of school for so long around Thanksgiving when I was younger. All I can hope for is eight hours of sleep after a full week of childcare. I guess I’m most thankful for teachers and schools being open.

I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving; here's to the next 18 years! :)

I've been here 13 years and almost 3 months, meaning I'm averaging ~44 karma a month, and it's one of the few gotos I don't consider harmful.

I think most of us here would see the damage that's happened to so many communities - all of them with their eternal Septembers - and I thought the last one that would hold out because I could curate what I saw would be reddit, but no, that's gone the way of so many before it for me.

HN is an experiment in a niche community with its own broad definition of "whatever is interesting", its own values and its own quirks. It's large enough to be vibrant and diverse, but small enough to have an uncodified but recognisable culture.

If there's one change I'm going to make in the next year though, it's relating to myself. I want most of my karma next year to come from my own Show HN posts: I want to build things and share those things, not just jump in on comment threads. Let's see how that goes.

Happy holidays to all, and may the Winter to be kind to you and yours.

Also: National Day of Mourning for some Native Americans

https://muwekma.org/blog/2023/september/what-does-thanksgivi...

To me, it's such a unique place with so many intelligent minds and great conversations. I wish I'd have found this place years ago.

I haven't been participating as much lately because life got in the way but I'm still thankful this community exists, it remains one of the very few places I can have high level discussions with fellow inquiring minds.

Wow, 13 years already :)

Initially, I would only click on the links and jump off HN but over the last few years I have been more interested in the comments and the discussion.

Thank you everyone one for such a great community!

The mythical utopian HN past never existed.

No where but here.

Anyway, I find HN to be a wonderful refuge from a lot of the absurdity that's "out there" and I will happily throw in my own "Thanks, guys!" to dang and tomhow. And to pg for starting this whole thing back in the day.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and here's to more years to come!

For non-Americans: Thanksgiving is a big national holiday in the US; celebrated on the last Thursday of November.

Its origin story is that a bunch of recent immigrants were having a rough time of it, and were helped by aboriginal Americans.

What happened after ... well, that's another story.

It's a big "family" holiday. Americans travel all over, to gather with their families at the Gorging Table.

I've lurked even longer than I've been a user... Probably about 15 years. It's been fun to watch several generations of kindred spirits join the party. For the most part, I think they assimilate, so the spirit of HN remains strong while new perspectives are added to the mix. It's still one of the best communities around.

Thanks to the mods and all of you!

Truly grateful to everyone in this community.

HN has been a wonderful source of both news and community - it connected me to my industry in ways that could only have been achieved otherwise by moving to SF or NYC.

In a way, it feels like a great continuation of my Slashdot years.

And special thanks to all those that have the fire of truth and curiosity that keep alive this great community!

Thank you.

Through tech cycles, heated debates, and some inevitable fads, the limitless curiosity of this community remains inspiring. Thank you mods and YC for staying true to the original hacker ethos.

I'd say HN had a big part in shaping and honing my critical thinking.

Thanks all, and have a great day.

10 years past, and now working as a software engineer, at least I understand a bit more.

Hope everyone's year finishes better than it started.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mostly a lurker. Been here over 10 years, but created my HN account 9 years ago. HN has been an invaluable source for me over they years.

Thanks for being around everyone.

I used to tell my father about communities that build them around a particular coffee shop with tables that have different kind of conversations ..

YC conversations are the best ( least fluff, more stuff) There is no garden without a gardener.

Thank you @dang and @tomhow .. ( before this post I had no clue who you were so thanks to @prodigycorp as well )

Here's to 17 more! <3

Couldn't get green beans, so had to pivot and made Green Pea Casserole.

Happy Thanksgiving

thanks all and happy thanksgiving!

I discovered the world around Ruby on Rails, then the modern JavaScript ecosystem (and CoffeeScript followed later by TypeScript), burned out, focused on Ruby, added Rust to my toolbox, wrote a small hobby operating system that had to have its own Lisp dialect of course. I was inspired to create so many side projects over the years, most of them open source, thanks to the influence of this community.

I also tried my hands at starting a startup obviously, multiple times, but I'm a solo dev and didn't succeed at finding a profitable niche for myself, instead I applied my knowledge to better understand the business and product sides of the startups I've been working for which made me a better engineer for sure.

This community almost made me move to the Silicon Valley, but instead I traveled the world as a digital nomad when everyone was doing it, and came back home to settle down in a forest close to my roots.

Reading you all daily I can imagine what could have been my life at the heart of the tech world, and at the same time I'm happy to read its pulse from afar.

I hope HN will still be here in 15 more years, thanks everyone!

Thank you all. Without you, life would've been much simpler, but not better!

Cheers!

I still get value. But there's too much noise I think. I also think I'm older now and I'm more adverse to "done it, seen it"

The odd "made an app to do basic thing xyz" doesn't get my attention anymore.

Also, posts related to science get a hard scrutiny. Most posts are just cross references to poorly moderated subreddits. That, or they're just posts directly from archx with no external paper references. I'm not a scientist, but I know enough to know when to ignore bullshit.

Most posts to HN are still mostly bullshit. But I know enough to occasionally see something interesting. That's may be 4 times a year at this point.

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I also want to add more context. I've been in the Anathem ideology for about 20 years now. It has shaped my world view. Call me fra geuis.

If you want to present what you think are new ideas, be prepared to back them up. When we get the Loreites up and running, I'll refer you to them.

Been here 17 years. Crazy to think about how much has happened since then.

Thanks HN! You make me smarter every (other) day.

Happy Thanksgiving!

That being said HN was and continues to be one of the most valuable resources for geeks on the net.

Thank you for your open mindedness, smarts, stupid fun and lovable nerdiness.

I feel at home here.

One thing that makes me sad are dystopian fears. Not sure if this is warranted or not, but certainly get my dose of dread from HN. But thank you for being so sensitive and caring in this.

Happy thanksgiving.

Thank you all. Thank you for laughing at my jokes.

Happy Thanksgiving

Use this day to eat good food, converse with relatives, and rest from the usual madness. Peace on Earth.

It’s funny what passes as humor in europe is crass for others.

I’ve been more of a lurker than a poster over the years, but this place has shaped how I think about tech, work, and the future more than any other corner of the internet.

Huge thanks to @dang, @tomhow, YC, and everyone who shows up here with curiosity and good faith. The signal-to-noise ratio here is still unmatched.

Here’s to many more years of weird, smart, opinionated conversations.

https://nmcsw.org/indigenous-resilience-thanksgiving-story/