Wish HN: Happy Holidays • Hacker News Board

Re: Wish HN: Happy Holidays

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Post by perfectstorm » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

Merry Christmas HN

that was fun. thanks Google.

Re: Wish HN: Happy Holidays

#112

Post by serf » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

supperburg wrote: post #97

adventured wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is 15 years old. It isn't fragile and its position isn't precarious.

1: how are hosting costs paid for? 2: how many people need to get hit by a bus to bring it down? Yes, it is fragile and precarious and transient. Why would you delude yourself? I think your emotions are clouding your logical faculties. If Dan G got hit by a bus I know for a fact there is nobody who could replace him. To serf That’s a very elegant observation. When I imagine hacker news shutting down I can only think…

I can't reply to the rest of your replies due to karma bombing, but I wanted to point out : Many beautiful things are fleeting, and many of those beauties exist exactly due to their ephemeral transient nature.

I've never thought of HN as one of those 'beautiful and fragile' things, especially after over a decade -- maybe I will once it's gone -- I simply want to point out that some of the world's most beautiful things are in-fact 'precarious and transient' , and that makes them no less spectacular.

Happy holidays, everyone.