Tell HN: Merry Christmas • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by bornabox » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 7:43 AM UTC

Grosvenor wrote: post #217

Grosvenor wrote: post #50

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Since I might have peoples' attention for a moment (Can no longer edit my original post). Might I suggest the King William's college quiz this Christmas? https://kwc.im/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GKP_2025_26.pdf

Thanks for posting. This was fun! Towards the end it gets really hard. Merry Christmas!

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 7:45 AM UTC

andy_ppp wrote: post #96

Happy Christmas everyone, I’m at 29000 feet on a flight to Hong Kong after a mini version of planes, trains and automobiles and including cancelled planes and taxis to different airports. I’m struck by honestly what a miracle it is that we can travel thousands of miles at hundreds of MPH and have okay internet access and communicate. I don’t think people quite realise how delicate all of the technology is now and how…

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Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 7:47 AM UTC

pdevr wrote: post #30

Merry Christmas to everyone. Being a non-Christian and it being Christmas time, I am sharing one verse from the New Testament that is, in my opinion, useful - or at the very least, insightful - to anyone, regardless of religion. Luke 16:10: He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.

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Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by jakebasile » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 7:48 AM UTC

Merry Christmas to you, too, and to all that read this.

A relevant verse about a sometimes stressful day:

Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.

- Matthew 6:34

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by Exoristos » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 7:56 AM UTC

shortcord wrote: post #59

Luke 2:14 [14] “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by anonu » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 8:15 AM UTC

s5300 wrote: post #239

NaOH wrote: post #182

I'm taking a moment to recognize once more the work that user @atdrummond (Alex Thomas Drummond) did for a couple years to help others here. I did not know him, don’t think I ever interacted with him, and I did not benefit from his generosity, but I admired his kindness. Just beautiful. Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38706167 - Dec 2023 (9 comments) Ask HN: W…

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you never really die on the internet.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by dachris » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 8:18 AM UTC

Grosvenor wrote: post #50

* , _/^\_ * /.-.\ * * `/&\` * ,@.*;@, /_o.I %_\ * * (`'--:o(_@; /`;--.,__ `') * ;@`o % O,*`'`&\ * (`'--)_@ ;o %'()\ * /`;--._`''--._O'@; /&*,()~o`;-.,_ `""`) * /`,@ ;+& () o*`;-';\ (`""--.,_0 +% @' &()\ /-.,_ ``''--....-'`) * * /@%;o`:;'--,.__ __.'\ ;*,&(); @ % &^;~`"`o;@(); * /(); o^~; & ().o@*&`;&%O\ jgs `"="==""==,,,.,="=="==="` __.----.(\-''#####---...___...-----._ '` \)_`"""""` .--' ') o( )_-\ `"""` `

Very nice, the introduction to recursion in university (which was around that time of the year) was drawing a fractal Christmas tree

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by Minor49er » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 8:29 AM UTC

tamimio wrote: post #66

Technically it’s merry Yule and Saturnalia, christ has nothing to do with it.

A reader of Ernest L. Martin?

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by onion2k » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 8:29 AM UTC

e-dant wrote: post #201

Grosvenor wrote: post #50

* , _/^\_ * /.-.\ * * `/&\` * ,@.*;@, /_o.I %_\ * * (`'--:o(_@; /`;--.,__ `') * ;@`o % O,*`'`&\ * (`'--)_@ ;o %'()\ * /`;--._`''--._O'@; /&*,()~o`;-.,_ `""`) * /`,@ ;+& () o*`;-';\ (`""--.,_0 +% @' &()\ /-.,_ ``''--....-'`) * * /@%;o`:;'--,.__ __.'\ ;*,&(); @ % &^;~`"`o;@(); * /(); o^~; & ().o@*&`;&%O\ jgs `"="==""==,,,.,="=="==="` __.----.(\-''#####---...___...-----._ '` \)_`"""""` .--' ') o( )_-\ `"""` `

Thought it was obfuscated C code, then I realized it’s a tree or something

Pretty sure it's a regex to match email address strings.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by hamonrye » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 8:32 AM UTC

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