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Happy New Year 2025

1223 points by martynvandijke ↗ HN
Hey HN, this site always drags me back to visit it everyday. So for that Happy New year !

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chistev
Yea, I discovered this site late last year (2024) around October, and it's now a site I visit everyday. At least 4 times a day.
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bwag
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!
papichulo4
Aah. Same class I see :) Hope everything has gone well for you since. Happy new year!
FlyingSnake
Ditto!

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.

c6p
Long time lurker here, too. It has become a central part of my daily routine. Happy new year, HN!
senectus1
this is such old news ;-) (in North Queensland atm, New years was nearly 10 hours ago :-P )
leptoniscool
Happy New Year from the West coast!
mistersquid
> Happy New Year from the West coast!

This was around 18:10 PST so the greeting may have introduced a race condition.

Happy New Year anyway, logic be darned!

bryant
Given all the division and change across the rest of the web (and by extension the world), glad to have a place where I can learn, share, grow, and maintain an open mind.

Happy new year :)

sebnun
Same, happy new year.
nioj
Happy New Year from Europe!
the_arun
HN is our backyard for learning & understanding new perspectives. To all - ಹೊಸ ವರ್ಷದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು!!
vikasvm
ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಹೊಸ ವರ್ಷದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು
bovermyer
Happy New Year, whether you celebrated it in the past or the future.

Remember - the new year is not yet written. Amazing and unexpected things are sure to come.

FrustratedMonky
Shout out. Crossing fingers for 2025.

Reading some Peter Turchin, not looking good.

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benatkin
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: 3**2**2*5**2
_kb
Even better, all of these are also 2025:

(20+25)²

(∑n)² and ∑n³ for n 1..9

benatkin
Nice. A unique year indeed, since the last one was 1936, 89 years ago. It's obvious to me now - that's 2025-(45*2-1) and I can picture a row and a column at the edges of a grid being removed, wth one cell being shared between the row and column. I think maybe at some point I saw that. 1600 and 2500 are more obvious, and 2050 is the midpoint between them linearly.

The others in Python:

    sum(range(1, 10))**2
    sum(n**3 for n in range(1, 10))
ngkw
happy new year from tokyo
wafflez
Couldn’t agree more. Stay classy HN, have a happy & healthy 2025!
drvladb
To what's to come :)

With a new year / с (наступающим) новым годом / з новим роком

moondistance
Happy New Year!

I know so few of you but feel like you’re my best friends. Love to all.

smrt
Happy new year / Andariki nootana samvatsara subhakanshalu!
plastic_bag
It would've been better if you had written that in the original script. So, I'll do that for you ;)

అందరికీ నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు!

devsda
If we are going down this road, let's go all in and be specific :) its

అందరికీ ఆంగ్ల నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు!

I'll consider the previous one as advanced wishes for 30'mar 25 ;)

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flaterkk
Logged in just to say happy new year, also a lurker :-)
mastry
Happy new year from the US South y’all.
pryelluw
Python Atlanta organizer here. Come hang out sometime if you’re close!

Happy new year!