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.

Hackernews always helped me feel grounded and connected to the tech world and community at large.

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.

Please spell out your abbreviations for those of us who are not familiar :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_and_medium-sized_enterpr...

edit: "it's me!"

Happy Thanksgiving!

That said, very few programmers today recognize or admit the atrocious quality of modern software. I think That's why people like Jonathan Blow or Casey Muratori are disliked by developers who see themselves as champions of "modern" software development.

Sorry for misunderstanding.

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.

I love HN. Happy thanksgiving!

In other words, exactly what the internet was and (for people like me) hoped it would continue to be. I don't think it's entirely the moderation (though that certainly helps) but somehow the conceptual integrity has been maintained and has a powerful shaping force.

I never completely agree with the content and opinions, but we all seem really well aligned with the rules of the game.

I have seen them squash interesting debates.

I had one guy email me, and tell me at home to stop commenting so much. (Never forgot that one, and there are no TOS. I will probally pay for those last two sentences? Then again if HN is what it claims, maybe not?)

What makes this place special is there are a wide range of people here interested in many subjects. What I love most is cutting through the bull. I doubt there's a person here who doesn't know about The Scientific Method, or The Placebo Effect.

We don't automatically give credit to the wealthy boys unless they did something really spectacular in their lives, and we want to know exactly how much help the wealthy family had in the success. We don't let them pontificate ad nausium because they made money. We scrutinize and investigate everyone, and every idea. From the best in class PhDs to lost disenfranchised souls. Everyone has a chance to make their point.

Hacker News is by far the best site for technical discussion.

(I do spend too much time here. It's my fault though. I don't have much of a life, and I am lonely. I am looking for new sites besides Reddit. Reddit would be so much better if everyone wasen't trying out for a SNL contract.)

Indubitably true.

Frankly, even if I’m forever shadowbanned, I can’t think of a better place on the net. It reminds me of the old net, the best parts. The current fashion and culture change a bit over the years but not too much. It’s hard to not mess up a good thing but they do well to do that here, even if there’s a strong pro-CCP bias evident at times in some of the moderation.

Tech meet ups, gym classes, insert interest here groups and anything else you can think of.

Online connections just don't fully satisfy the human need for connecting.

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.

Likewise to you.

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!!

It is funny, because only few years ago I was more cynical about it and reduced all holidays to the 'feast' part.

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.

what i would pay for that experience while walking home after a night out.

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!

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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.

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.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, all. Hope you are able to spend time with family and friends.

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.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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.

For those in groups, be thankful for those you break bread with and the paths that led them to your table.

Can't promise to respond instantly, but will respond before I go to bed tonight.

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!

(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.)

(If you do check, maybe turn it down to be nice to your nerves :D)

Wow, SAME is very interesting. (I live in Australia and have never been exposed to a comparable system. I think the closest we have is an SMS-based thing.)

With TV at that time offering in many places, my childhood home included, only about a dozen analog VHF and UHF channels many if not all of which participated in the system, you were all but guaranteed to see and hear a system test sooner or later - I might have been five or six the first time I did, and it frightened me so badly that I ran and found my mother.

As mentioned in the README to that project, there's a smallish and somewhat creepypasta-adjacent Youtube subgenre of fictional EAS messages, and I've wondered sometimes if experiences similar to mine are where that found its genesis. If video content hasn't all moved to VR by a couple decades from now, I wonder if we'll still see the like being made.

You the real one!

Happy Labor Thanksgiving Day everyone!

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Happy thanksgiving!

May the Lord grant us His peace and life everlasting. Amen.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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.

Just getting my snarky comment practice in before the family dinner. Alright, I'm off to bake a sweet potato souffle!

Thanks everyone & HN staff

You are all beautiful, bickering, nerds. And I love you all.

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.

This year, I am thankful for being healthy as a family, and i am praying for the kid.

That's all.

Eat some food, love your fellow humans but most importantly.

Thank you to all the Opensource Devs

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.

To me i can appreciate that far more than worrying about the origin story, but the version thats told is inspirational too

https://www.dinneratthezoo.com/spatchcock-turkey/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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!!

Happy thanksgiving! And for non-Americans wondering what it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

Controversy around origin aside, hey at least the spirit of it is nice.

Additionally, truly appreciate the text-based interface!

EDIT: "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." –Carl Sagan

#np “Your job is my smile”[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1464011349885870091

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank you OP and everyone on HN.

I hope your turkey comes out better than mine did...

I guess next up is President’s Day? Columbus Day?

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).

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.

It is Christian only in the sense that the people who celebrated it were Christian. The events that led to the festival were purely political in nature, and not necessarily wholesome either.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/thanksgivi...

2. https://www.salon.com/2016/11/23/thanksgiving-a-day-of-mourn...

US currency in itself isn't inherently religious, but the decision to put that phrase on the currency was religious, and so is the decision to keep it there today. Now, it is not just religious, it is also very political, but the two are very often intertwined: it is a form of politicised religion, or religious politics.

> So I'm not sure the proclamation makes Thanksgiving religious. The origins might, though

I think to most Americans in the 19th century and earlier, the idea that Thanksgiving was a religious festival would have seemed obvious–it was about giving thanks to the deity, assuming a Judaeo-Christian conception of deity. Now, no denying that it became quite secularised through the course of the 20th century, and to many 21st Americans it is an entirely secular occasion, and if "thanksgiving" is anything more than an empty word, it is thanks directed at one's friends/family/colleagues/acquaintances/community/etc, maybe even at the cosmos, but not at God in whom one quite possibly doesn't believe.

As I said in my original comment, other religious festivals, such as Christmas, have also become highly secularised. But, even though many celebrate Christmas in an entirely secular way, people still remember its association with Christianity, which makes many non-Christians feel uncomfortable celebrating it even in a secular form. Thanksgiving was never so explicitly Christian, so Jews and Muslims and others feel more comfortable in celebrating it.

We dont have it here in Australia (except apparently on a small island off to the side of the mainland). We don't really have any sort of festival or celebration that is comparable.

Of course it is not entirely equivalent, in that Thanksgiving is a more religiously inclusive holiday than Christmas is. While there are people with a religious objection to both, there are many more with a religious objection to the later but not the former.

I think this recent adoption of Black Friday in Australia is dumb, for two reasons:

(1) It makes zero sense given we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving

(2) Given the term’s historical association in Australian culture with mass death (1939 Black Friday bushfires that killed over 70 people, 2009 Black Saturday bushfires that killed over 170 people), using it for sales could be seen as disrespectful and culturally insensitive

Much further away from the equator, you can't really do agriculture to harvest stuff. Closer to the equator you can often do multiple harvests a year.

Mentioning this not just to be pedantic (though I enjoy that), but also because the connection between our physical surroundings and culture are endlessly fascinating.

See eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghmjIBD2Fd4

This year I'm thankful I don't have to deal with that kind of behaviour outside the internet.

The only thing that comes to mind about my knowledge of Thanks Giving is from the Addams Family Values film... I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be taking that revision of a historical event too seriously.

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

It wasn't until after school that I learned what was really going on, and now when I see celebration for this day I really do just think of genocide. Probably not the best way to approach this but I was surprised at how strongly users are flagging any comment that mentions it. It makes me feel like people want to keep up their cognitive dissonance, and it feels like that mechanism is what allows our nation to continue harming first nations people to this day.

Clearly you touched on a very sensitive subject. I was also surprised that my link was flagged by this much people, as it was a very informative blog post about the fact that some First Nation tribes might have a different point of view about what Thanksgiving actually means to them.

I did email dang and asked if he can take a look at down votes in this thread. But either way, keep up the good work and don't get disappointed by the sheer amount of injustices!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: also, please don't call names - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29338611 is not ok here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

Yes.

> Is my concern for consumerism over Black Friday not relevant?

To a post about being thankful on Thanksgiving? It is absolutely not relevant. Let people be happy.

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.

Cool robots in your bio :)

I work at a TCU and we gathered canned items as a staff to distribute to the less fortunate. That's the actual spirit of Thanksgiving.

Decent people have reclaimed the day 4/20 and number 420 for better purposes than celebrating Hitler's birthday, the same way "queers" have reclaimed that term as our own and use it in the acronym LGBTQ+.

So let's please not let the white supremacists who celebrate American's genocide against the original natives maintain their exclusive claim on Thanksgiving, which literally means giving thanks, which is a good thing for everyone to do in general.

As A Native American, Here's What I Want My Fellow Americans To Know About Thanksgiving

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/native-american-thanksgiving_...

>“I can choose how I feel about this day, but it is a choice. I can either let the holiday claim me, or choose to reclaim it.”

>If I could ask one thing from my non-indigenous fellow Americans when it comes to Thanksgiving, I would ask that you refrain from teaching the romanticized version of the holiday. Read to your children about what it means to be thankful, what it means to heal and be a family. Learn as a family about the tribal nation that is local to where you live. Take time during dinner to recognize whose traditional lands you give thanks on. Take this holiday into your own hands and understand that not every Native will have good feelings about this day, and be accepting of that. We can all choose how we feel about this holiday, but it is always our own choice.

He died in 1910.