Happy New Year 2025 • Hacker News Board

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 the last 7 years.

My wish for the new year: hopefully, AI singularity is still a few years away and doesn't happen in 2025!

Re: Happy New Year 2025

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Post by _kb » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 3:27 AM UTC

benatkin wrote: post #17

The days are getting longer in the northern hemisphere and shorter in the southern hemisphere. And the start of the ISO 8601 dates is changing! I also monitor the changes of the hexadecimal unix timestamps. The next time the first of 8 hex digits changes is in 2029. from datetime import datetime '{:02X}'.format(int(datetime.now().timestamp())) datetime.fromtimestamp(0x70000000) And this spits out the year in Python:…

Even better, all of these are also 2025:

(20+25)²

(∑n)² and ∑n³ for n 1..9