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Same. I've been a lurker since 2008. Been hitting this site practically every day since. I've learned so much in the process. Thanks for everything hn, happy new year!
I’m a long time lurker (under old defunct alts) and occasional poster but I’ve opened HN almost every day since I discovered the site in 2008.
This community has an outsized impact on my career and life and I’m eternally grateful for it. Thank you!
Happy new year and eine Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr.
I created an account in 2022, but had been a regular reader much earlier. From Slashdot in 2002 to Digg in 2004 to Reddit in 2010 and now HN. Happy New Year (+30). Here's to a personally productive 2025!
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5) sum of the single digits squared: (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)²
Some more (thanks to chatgpt-o1) 6) sum of the first 45 odd numbers: 1+3+5+...+89 7) is a Harshad number: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harshad_number
3^2 is the sum of the first three odd numbers. 4^2 is the sum of the first four odd numbers. 5^2 is the sum of the first five odd numbers.
Edit: sorry, don't mean to be a pill.
Learn OCaml in 2025
A late night but the most sober New Year's Eve I've had in twenty plus years. A single glass of Ruby Port in the neighbors and that was it, kind of proud of myself on that.
Similar story with weed, except I can't dose it, it's either nothing or completely baked, so I'm switching from "baked from Friday evening to Monday morning" to "one evening per two weeks". The worst part was the brain fog, I could feel myself becoming more and more stupid.
Probably I'd enjoy a lot some stimulants, but virtually all of them are highly addictive, so yeah. I do LSD every now and then, which is super fun because it does have a stimulating effect, but it's something you can only do every few months, so yeah.
45^2 = 2025 Happy perfect square year, everyone. The previous one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116.
2025 will be the year in which a certain operating system is used on desktop machines.
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Some more (thanks to chatgpt-o1) 6) sum of the first 45 odd numbers: 1+3+5+...+89 7) is a Harshad number: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harshad_number
6 is kind of cheating. It's a restatement of 45^2. 3^2 is the sum of the first three odd numbers. 4^2 is the sum of the first four odd numbers. 5^2 is the sum of the first five odd numbers. Edit: sorry, don't mean to be a pill.