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Re: Happy New Year 2025

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Post by grumpy-de-sre »

lukan wrote: post #174

Happy new year as well, even though it already started for me on the 21. of December on Solstice, when the days were starting to get longer. That is a real turning point in the natural cycle and I like to follow natural cycles where possible. 1.1. is just arbitary numbers changing to me, but for the majority it means something, which also makes it real and I can appreciate the intent and celebrate anyway.. (And I did…

Definitely a fan of non-religious winter solstice celebrations (good occasion to combine elements of Christmas and new years). My wife is Chinese and loves dumplings so we pretty much celebrate Dongzhi. Always goes down well with our western friends.

Re: Happy New Year 2025

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Post by fifilura »

globnomulous wrote: post #164
umeshunni wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't consider it cheating, I bet most of these rules have an internal relation.

Re: Happy New Year 2025

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Post by parski »

lukan wrote: post #174

Happy new year as well, even though it already started for me on the 21. of December on Solstice, when the days were starting to get longer. That is a real turning point in the natural cycle and I like to follow natural cycles where possible. 1.1. is just arbitary numbers changing to me, but for the majority it means something, which also makes it real and I can appreciate the intent and celebrate anyway.. (And I did…

I live near the arctic circle so the bit of sunshine we gain every day makes a real difference. I'm also in complete denial on June 21st, absolutely refusing to acknowledge that the days get shorter.

Re: Happy New Year 2025

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Post by gabigrin »

abixb wrote: post #29

US Central Time here, so still a couple hours to go, but HAPPY NEW YEAR to y'all fellow HN-ers -- HN is probably the least guilt-ridden procrastination I do on the whole wide internet. Thank you to every one of you who has made HN among the most intellectually dense places on the web -- I wouldn't be where I'm today without reading all the insightful comments, submitted links and perspectives of all the HN-ers over t…

Amen!

Re: Happy New Year 2025

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Post by coolcoder613 »

danwills wrote: post #137

Happy 2025 all HN'ers! I'm a daily HN'er - It's my only source of news apart from occasional YT vids, but what a brilliant source of news it is!!! I frequently find myself saying: 'Yeah that was on HN a few weeks ago'! It's so up-to-the-minute and really just wholeheartedly good! Dang is a goddamned legend in my opinion I can hardly believe it works so incredibly well and it's surely mostly from dang's good work! Tha…

Me too! I find myself saying 'that was on HN a while ago' very often, actually.

Re: Happy New Year 2025

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Post by Cumpiler69 »

abixb wrote: post #29

US Central Time here, so still a couple hours to go, but HAPPY NEW YEAR to y'all fellow HN-ers -- HN is probably the least guilt-ridden procrastination I do on the whole wide internet. Thank you to every one of you who has made HN among the most intellectually dense places on the web -- I wouldn't be where I'm today without reading all the insightful comments, submitted links and perspectives of all the HN-ers over t…

My wish for the new year is to have a body so jacked and ripped that when I commit a crime the media posts my shirtless pictures everywhere and everyone goes "wow".

Re: Happy New Year 2025

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Post by bratwurst3000 »

umeshunni wrote: post #145
_kb wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

8) the sum of 2024 + 1 also
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