Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

Sixteen years here, and the half-life decay of this community has been slower than anywhere else. That takes real, consistent work, and we have been lucky to have it. Through good times and rough ones, including the loss of Aaron Swartz (who I only knew of through HN), this has stayed a place for real conversation.

The grit, curiosity, and people building things have always been inspiring.

Thanks for all the discussions over the years.

Happy Thanksgiving!

12 years. first time commenting this hour.

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 relevant to the students.

Almost 12 years of HN. I'm still a lurker, I'm sorry I don't contribute more, but I don't have much time and reading HN with a coffee in the morning is the best thing I can do. Thx everyone involved <3

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cheers to all you glorious bastards. i disagree with you on most things and quibble over pettiest crap, but know it is all in good fun. we are prolly in the weirdest point in computer history and get to see it make it through ( or not.. either is fine ). its a secret, but those annual affirtation are one of my favorite traditions.

here is to all the fun convos yet to come.

Happy Thanksgiving! 10+ solid years as a near daily HN lurker :)

Be sure to give your parents (and other seniors in your life) a phishing and subscriptions checkup this weekend!

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Happy Thanksgiving! This is the only site that passes my threshold for signal-to-noise ratio. I genuinely learn from discussions here. It humbles me to be on the same webpage as some of the most knowledgeable, ambitious, thoughtful folks across the globe. Thanks everyone for your active participation.

Merry Thanksgiving everyone! And a special thanks to the mods for helping to maintain such high quality discussion over the years.

I'm very thankful for @dang and @tomhow keeping this site such high signal to noise ratio. It's a great place to spend time on the internet :).

Unrelated question, but I thought cattiness meant to be rude? Or maybe I misunderstand what you mean with how you use the word?

Happy Thanksgiving / Happy post-Cranberry day!

Also: National Day of Mourning for some Native Americans

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Just completed 7 years on HN. This is the only social network I'm active on (if you don't count whatsapp). Awesome folks and amazing discussions!!

Only been here five -point- five, but it's already far outlasted my tenure at other venues.

For non-Americans: Thanksgiving is a big national holiday in the US; celebrated on the last Thursday of November.

Its origin story is that a bunch of recent immigrants were having a rough time of it, and were helped by aboriginal Americans.

What happened after ... well, that's another story.

It's a big "family" holiday. Americans travel all over, to gather with their families at the Gorging Table.

Thankful for @dang and this community. Happy thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving @dang, @tomhow, and the HN community! Almost 17 years here, and it's hard to overstate how much I learned from y'all.

Through tech cycles, heated debates, and some inevitable fads, the limitless curiosity of this community remains inspiring. Thank you mods and YC for staying true to the original hacker ethos.

HN has been a kaleidoscope of the human psyche. idlewords dissing pg, Michael o' church's rants, Terry's slow break into insanity, etc. I'm thankful above all that this place still exists.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone -- I've mostly been a lurker here over the last 20 years and I'm thankful for being able to interact with such a bright and vibrant community full of thinkers, doers and explorers -- you guys definitely changed my life for the better and inspired me in many, many ways.

Happy thanksgiving all. In an era where algorithms on other platforms seem optimized for outrage and engagement bait, I'm grateful for HN's optimization for curiosity. It's one of the few places left where I can open a thread on a topic I disagree with and actually expect to have my mind changes -- or at least understand the opposing view better -- by the top comment.

Where else will you be able to have discussions with PhD’s, entrepreneurs, leaders, doers, and specialists in literally every field?

No where but here.

Seems weird to say, but I've been posting here for seventeen years now. And in that time, can I say that the quality of the discourse has slipped some? Well... if I'm being honest, probably yeah. A little. But at the same time, I can still honestly say that HN is still easily the best community of this sort on the 'net, at least that I'm aware of. OK, Lobste.rs has some merit, but the problem there is that the community there is arguably still a little too small, and you just don't get the variety and volume of interesting discussion you get here. But the level of discourse is high there as well.

Anyway, I find HN to be a wonderful refuge from a lot of the absurdity that's "out there" and I will happily throw in my own "Thanks, guys!" to dang and tomhow. And to pg for starting this whole thing back in the day.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and here's to more years to come!

Horrifyingly, my account appears to be eighteen years old.

The mythical utopian HN past never existed.

Thanks HN for being awesome. Grateful to you all, @dang and @tomhow. Learning something new every day for over half a decade now.

Been here 18 years. Almost never comment, but I come back everyday for the insightful comments. Thank you @dang for the great moderation and thank you to great HN community.

Thank you all for challenging my beliefs and giving me a world to explore outside the law.

I've only been participating for a few months (lurking for much longer) and I've got to say HN has been the best news aggregation experience I've ever had. I hope to be here for many years to come!

Pretty new poster, but I learn so much from HN. Great way to curate and see amazing stuff

17 years here (wow). I don’t post much but I get a lot out of this site and it’s one of my few daily reads. Grateful for the site, its mods, and the contributors.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Eighteen years here. I am not American but I think this is a holiday that we can all celebrate as reminder that we should be grateful for what and specially for who we have, independently what we don't have.

Lurking, occasionally commenting, rarely posting. I've read HN everyday since I started working in the industry since March 2016. I appreciate what HN is and the shared culture.

Thanks all, and have a great day.

Thanks Dan, Tom, and the others who keep this a place that still brings joy and satisfies the curiosity brain itch.

Happy thanksgiving all. Switched from ./ to HN and haven't regretted a single day. Hope you all have a great one!

I can't believe I've been around these parts for 17 years... Thank you for the inspiration to take a look at my join date. I feel the same as you about the discussions here, there is always a level of depth (and silliness) that I appreciate about the banter and interactions here.

Here's to 17 more! <3

Happy Thanksgiving all.

Mostly a lurker. Been here over 10 years, but created my HN account 9 years ago. HN has been an invaluable source for me over they years.

Thankful for the overall balance this site still manages to find between diversity of viewpoint and civility. It gets spicy sometimes, but I like it that way.

Hope everyone's year finishes better than it started.

This thread, in and of itself, demonstrates the incredible quality of this community. Thank you to all of you, and especially to @dang and @tomhow for thanklessly holding us all together.

15 years here too. I turn 40 today. Grateful for this community. I quit social media years ago but still enjoy the discourse here.

9 years and it's the website I check daily more than any others! Happy Thanksgiving!

Grateful for all the people here who make this world a little better all the tiem.

Just looked it up: 14 years already and very proud to be a part of this community. :-)

Happy Thanksgiving

Thank you, been a rough year (mentally, financially) - super grateful to everyone here on HN!

been lurking for most of my adult life (and it shows :-))

Thanks HN! You make me smarter every (other) day.

Thanks for all of the hootin' n' hollerin' over the past ~decade or so.

Happy Thanksgiving to all! love HN!

Happy Thanksgiving!! 12 yrs of learning and lurking. Amazing community!!

14 years here. Thanks @dang and @tomhow.

Thank you, happy Thanksgiving.

Nostalgia is a heck of a drug. :-)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!! =)

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Thanks Dang your a LEGEND

Here for ~15-16 years through various accounts. HT

Thanks you Lord for the food.

I had to check, I'm at 8 years, stay awesome HN'ers!

Hey, community! Thank you for this opportunity to connect and feel closeness to the best parts and people in our industry.

Thank you for your open mindedness, smarts, stupid fun and lovable nerdiness.

I feel at home here.

One thing that makes me sad are dystopian fears. Not sure if this is warranted or not, but certainly get my dose of dread from HN. But thank you for being so sensitive and caring in this.

Happy thanksgiving.

not for the indians.

I'm certainly thankful for Hacker News!

For those of you who don't celebrate Thanksgiving, wishing you a delcious Southern pecan pie anyway, and more!

Happy thanksgiving y'all! :-)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy thanksgiving everyone!

10 years. Happy Thanksgiving!

Been lurking since 2011 or so. Dare I say that the average level of discourse has finally fallen to a level where I feel comfortable participating after over ten years of just reading.

That being said HN was and continues to be one of the most valuable resources for geeks on the net.

18 years. The site has become a hotbed of political discussion recently, and I do wish the manual unflagging was stopped, but other people are right when they say that Startup News/Hacker News has remained relevant for far longer than other sites that started around the same time. The only one I can think of that stayed relevant for that long is Ars Technica.

Happy Thanksgiving, HN!

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happy thanksgiving y'all :)

It’s not the same account but I realized I’ve been around since 2009. Time flies! Happy thanksgiving everyone.

I’m thankful for tech

18 years here. Happy Thanksgiving!

Another 15-yearer here too! Thank you HN, and for all the work you do @dang and @tomhow

Happy Thanksgiving!

Use this day to eat good food, converse with relatives, and rest from the usual madness. Peace on Earth.

Happy thanksgiving american bros, don't get too fat.

It’s funny what passes as humor in europe is crass for others.

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