Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by breckinloggins » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:26 AM UTC

Holy cow... I signed up to HN 18 years ago. I am more of a behind-the-scenes guy in the tech world so I don't know most of you but I've enjoyed participating in this community over the years.

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

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by jbot27 » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:27 AM UTC

I am very grateful for this site and community.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by sndean » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:29 AM UTC

Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you had (or are having) a good day. Or if it wasn’t good—stressful, tiring, etc.—here’s to hoping for some great sleep.

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.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by gitprolinux » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:29 AM UTC

Happy Thanksgiving!

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by mikewarot » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:43 AM UTC

It's been 6 years for me, and I've learned quite a bit here. HN remains one of the few places I hang out on a daily basis.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by JoshTriplett » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:43 AM UTC

colechristensen wrote: post #119

raphman wrote: post #74

Thanks HN! I regularly open HN during lectures. There is no better way to show my students what software engineering entails and why I focus on certain topics. 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 r…

>What are good use cases for UML? Let's check out HN. Are there good cases for UML outside the raison d'être of middle managers circa 2007?

Having architecture diagrams is not fundamentally a bad thing, and standardizing the conventions for them is not fundamentally a bad thing. I think the thing that gave UML a terribly bad name was the cavalcade of early "zero code" or "low code" tools trying to turn your UML diagram into code; those were terrible.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by dawnerd » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:46 AM UTC

17 years and it’s been the best site I use daily. Thanks to everyone keeping this place pleasant!

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by cm2012 » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:52 AM UTC

19 years here. Been a big part of my life - grateful for showing me a window into a totally different world ever since high school.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by kyledrake » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 2:12 AM UTC

I've had an HN account for 17 years now. This is one of the last good places left on the web for intelligent conversation, and pretty much the last place I even want to post comments anymore honestly. Thank you @dang for the hard work on maintaining that. Hopefully this site can continue to be a bastion in an increasingly dismal social media environment.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by fragmede » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 2:14 AM UTC

kyledrake wrote: post #139

I've had an HN account for 17 years now. This is one of the last good places left on the web for intelligent conversation, and pretty much the last place I even want to post comments anymore honestly. Thank you @dang for the hard work on maintaining that. Hopefully this site can continue to be a bastion in an increasingly dismal social media environment.

All of us old timers coming out for this one, eh? Also, when did I get so old?