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I'm taking a moment to recognize once more the work that user @atdrummond (Alex Thomas Drummond) did for a couple years to help others here. I did not know him, don’t think I ever interacted with him, and I did not benefit from his generosity, but I admired his kindness. Just beautiful.

Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38706167 - Dec 2023 (9 comments)

Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492378 - Dec 2023 (210 comments)

Tell HN: Thank You - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34140096 - Dec 2022 (42 comments)

Tell HN: Everyone should have a holiday dinner this year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34122118 - Dec 2022 (58 comments)

Unfortunately, Alex died a few months after his last round of holiday giving, about 1½ years ago now.

Tell HN: In Memory of Alexander Thomas Drummond - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40508725 - May 2024 (5 comments)

If you read the comments in that last thread, know that @toomuchtodo followed through last year and kept the tradition alive. Amazing and magnificent.

Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42291246 - Dec 2024 (46 comments)

Happy Christmas everyone, I’m at 29000 feet on a flight to Hong Kong after a mini version of planes, trains and automobiles and including cancelled planes and taxis to different airports. I’m struck by honestly what a miracle it is that we can travel thousands of miles at hundreds of MPH and have okay internet access and communicate. I don’t think people quite realise how delicate all of the technology is now and how easily it could fail if we don’t all look after each other. I hope you all have a brilliant Christmas and new year!

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Merry Christmas, HN!

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Love seeing the custom HN theme every year. Sometimes after Christmas, I avoid refreshing an HN tab, so I get to see the theme just a little bit longer :)

This year is a bit special to me. I recently moved countries for a new job, but I moved a bit too soon. Now I am spending the holiday season alone for the first time in my life. Learned a lot of lessons the hard way over the past week.

Fun seeing HN restart to switch to the Christmas theme, in three steps:

https://share.cleanshot.com/vJZv6k03 (restarting the server)

https://share.cleanshot.com/qFyM347P (online but temporarily readonly)

https://share.cleanshot.com/kW8kY7mp (back online!)

Merry Christmas HN!

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Three years ago I found myself in a difficult situation and at Christmas I asked HN for help. Several people sent me invitations and work appeared right away, so I went off to pay my bills. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34121905

My situation was very tough and the job was tough too, so I wasn’t able to reply to everyone by email right away, circumstances worked out that way.

Now things have improved and I want to say a big thank you to everyone who came to help, the HN community, Dang and the team for the support.

Merry Christmas and I wish humanity to survive in the age of AI!

PS: Your invaluable support made it possible to improve my startup https://acpul.org and I have created an open letter for those who would like to join in developing the best programming environment in the world: https://www.acpul.org/blog/Open-Letter

Merry Christmas and happy new year. It's been a tough year with stress about work, immigration, family. This little corner of the internet always gives me joy, hope, and inspiration to work for a better, kinder world.

Hope everyone enjoy the break and start 2026 with energy to keep improving yourself and the world.

May everyone here discover more and better ways to spread the joy of giving and doing good.

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Merry Christmas to you, too, and to all that read this.

A relevant verse about a sometimes stressful day:

Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.

- Matthew 6:34

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Merry Christmas, everyone! Continually grateful for this community: stumbling into it as a teenager changed my life and I never get tired of spinning out about new tech big and small with the folks here. Stay safe, everybody

Merry Christmas, This has been a wild one. On the way to my sister's house we got a call from her sister saying their dad needs to go into an assisted living place because his pneumonia is not getting better and needs 24/7 care. But this will cut off the income my wife was bring in for caring for him.

As the call is on our car throws a red light: Transmission malfunction: Service now. We take the next exit and happen to find a Big O Tire place which is where we get most of our car work done. The transmission is seized, but it's Christmas Eve and no one is open to get an estimate on a replacement. But that's okay a couple of cousins are able to pick us up to get to the party.

We get home and find big pile of presents on our doorstep but we find they are addressed to names we don't know. So we bring them in for safekeeping. Today I look around the apartment building and finding one with a dollhouse on the balcony give a knock but its the wrong door but they knew the family which was downstairs so the right family got the presents finally.

Now cinnamon rolls are baking for breakfast and starting dinner prep soon.

But somehow I have to figure out if I should replace the transmission on a 13 year old car which needs $4500 in suspension work too or replace the whole vehicle.

And find a way to make more money since the part-time job I have right now to open up time for caregiving won't be enough for all this, and it looks like caregiving won't be necessary for much longer anyway.

My first Christmas with mom gone was really tough. Stuck alone during COVID in 2021 in a really bad place. I couldn't sleep. And I happened to turn on the radio in the middle of the night and there was an Amy Grant interview. I almost turned it off, oh no, christian stuff I thought. But she talked about her first Christmas without her mom. Then they played her song about it. If I had been 5 minutes more trying to sleep, or given up on sleep 5 minutes earlier, I would have missed that.

Anyways, in case anyone needs to stumble upon something similar, I couldn't find something so perfect but...

hearing it now it's not as amazing as it was that night I needed to not be alone in grief, but here it is:

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/25/506715971/amy-grant-on-faith-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOqLV6Om4A

Merry Christmas to you!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_Tracks_Santa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas_Church,_Demre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Christmas_Spider

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer

Hope everyone has a healthy, rewarding and prosperous year. Special thanks to @dang and team for keeping this community a great place everyone wants to come back to. I love coming back here every day.

Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Spread the love, please - try to give everyone around you a metaphorical "▲" (upvote), in HN-speak, to make this world a better place.

  The Birth of Jesus

  [Luke 2] In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register [in tax ledgers].

  -- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%202&version=NIV

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Being a non-Christian and it being Christmas time, I am sharing one verse from the New Testament that is, in my opinion, useful - or at the very least, insightful - to anyone, regardless of religion.

Luke 16:10: He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.

I became a parent of two this year and my oldest is now 3 years old. One of the greatest things in life has to be a newborn baby. And more than ever for me, it makes sense that the greatest thing would be if God came as a newborn baby.

¡Feliz Navidad!

Meanwhile almost nobody noticed this page:

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Happy Holidays https://xe.dev/xmas 2 points by jFriedensreich 15 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46374804

Merry Christmas everyone. If you are not Christian, then seasons greetings, hope you got the day off anyway!

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merry christmas everyone! HN has been the first site i open up every morning with a cup of tea for the past 10 years or so. Cheers to a great community of builders & thinkers.

Due to illness, I've stayed home while my whole family goes to be with the grandparents. I will join them later today, with a mask.

It is strange and sad to be alone this morning.

If you are in the same situation, know that you are not alone: I'm thinking of you.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

In case you didn’t know, you can check if Santa has reached out your location ;)

https://www.flightradar24.com/R3DN053/3d9fb50a

Merry Christmas, everyone! Treasure these moments you get with those you care about it. Time is our most valuable asset.

Merry Christmas! HN Christmas theme is always great to see

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Merry Christmas hackernews community! What a great forum. Peace on Earth.

Merry Christmas, dear HN Community!

Being super-lonely this year, I hope all of you are much better off than me - this year contained some catastrophic external events in my life, which led to permanent change on some "layers" of my live (not only material, but also in psy etc.)

I hope the next year will bring the luck to re-align some things and bring them backs on the track, otherwise next year I will write the same post and add that Im in huge (final) trouble...

Enjoy the time with your family if they are near to you!

If anyone would like to add some Christmas lights to their site I made a little web component to add a little cheer to any site.

https://github.com/bradly/christmas-lights.js

You can see it in action at https://bradlyfeeley.com and https://birdymusic.com

Merry Christmas to one of the last great internet communities that I actually like to interact with

Merry Christmas everyone, from France.

This not so little corner of the internet keeps delivering year after year, thank you all for the quality of the submissions and discussions!

Meryy Christmas

this is what I did for my friends

https://www.adoptimize.de/weihnachten/editor.php

in german and english available https://www.adoptimize.de/weihnachten/2025_pers_v2/?id=demo_...

A couple of years ago in early December, we took a trip to Berlin and Strasbourg, and spent our time visiting many Christmas markets. It was a really enjoyable trip.

Yes, it was very cold, which is not deal when you're spending 12 hours a day outside (hovering around freezing the entire trip, a small amount of snow a few days). Yes, it gets dark early and the days are short -- but that's true back at home in California too. We do share a hemisphere, after all. And yes, after awhile, the markets all do tend to look the same. But I find it nice to travel, and I love traveling in the off-season.

Yes, you can travel at the same time everyone else wants to travel, with long days, long lines, and large prices. But everywhere you go has traditions year round, and the weather and lifestyle changes with the seasons. Every place and every time of year has things worth seeing and experiencing.

Or you could travel to the opposite hemisphere when the days are short back home, that's fun too :)

Luke 2:14

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        and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

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Merry Christmas everyone! :)

If you’d fancy a little holiday-themed adventure game - https://gricha.dev/happyholidays/terminal

Merry Christmas to the awesome hn community!

Merry Christmas!

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

- Luke 2:10-11

https://youtu.be/z84QdJlPpHE?si=2GIUu8vM5OarmdVx

Sharing the funniest Christmas themed video I know

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

Thank you HN and HN community for sharing the most interesting places of internet, ideas, discussions and points of views. Learned a lot and hope to learn more.

Merry christmas y'all and happy holidays. I can't put in to words how much I appreciate the culture on HN and the conversations I've been a part of. It's the only social media site where I enjoy reading my historical messages, I can see exactly how much I have grown and learned. I am thankful for the moderation and self-moderation.

I will continuing trying to give back in a small way, what the HN community has given me. Happy holidays.

I’m exceedingly thankful for this site. I turn here (as many of us do) for a quick escape, tech news catch-up, deep dive and inspiration. Proceed and be bold in 2026.

A bit Christmessy (Santa and a snow storm), but created a very simple preset for my VJ tool: https://music.gbraad.nl/revision/?program=threejs:christmas This is a reactive visualization, so it expects audio to play. Normally I feed a stream or MIDI, but a mic will also work

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Merry Xmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjMNtEKHURU

Merry Christmas HN. I offer this group my thanks for something I can learn from every day.

This is the Trinity College Choir’s advent concert - really puts me in the mood for the season, a remarkable performance and service: https://www.youtube.com/live/MsUd-twzG2U?si=1HMiaD2-Le70-fch

Merry Christmas!

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We Californians are still a few hours away from Christmas, but hope you people living in the future are having a merry holiday!

I got scared when I refreshed and HN turned red

Folks who have some extra time this Christmas, do check out the tv show Pluribus on Apple TV. It’s not your typical action packed sci-fi show but is very slow burning, philosophical kind of show which I found very smart.

Turns out my best 2 tv shows of last couple of years are on Apple TV: Severance and Pluribus

Merry X-Mas, all

Something to read if you’re bored, https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/christmas-...

Merry Christmas everyone. It was a pleasure interacting with you all this year and I hope for many more.

Just noticed that color of the HN top bar is more red which I never noticed in previous years.

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Merry Christmas HN Sending Warm Greetings to Everyone: https://festivegreeting.vercel.app/?id=90564ef5-f137-43be-b6...

BASIC Christmas tree generator: https://gist.github.com/nrichards/edb3b3b42154340cdb52af6a2d...

<3 happy holidays, folks.

Merry Christmas! This great community has changed my life so many times. Let’s go for more!

This is a good time to start your own tradition, or continue one that you find worthwhile.

Here's to a happy and healthy 2026!

Thanks HN for all the thoughtful comments and interesting articles.

Merry Christmas y'all. Glad to spend time with the fam bam and to spend some time resting. Also I'm getting my back nerves burned finally after trying to get a pain remediation surgery for a long time. Better late than never.

I hope you celebrate with your loved ones and have joy and warmth in your hearts. Last but not least, let's not forget those who are suffering, sick, or elderly, and let's do a good deed when we have the opportunity.

Merry Christmas to all!

I am alone. I haven't seen my family in many, many years for reasons that I don't want to get into. I am a founder. I check Hacker News every day and have learned an immense amount from all the commenters, articles, and discussions over the years. I thank you all for that. I am truly grateful.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas full of joy, and I hope you can all appreciate, share, and express love for those around you, be it family, friends, or strangers on the internet. We are all very lucky to be part of the HN site and community. I have been here for about 15 years (at least that is what it feels like) with my other accounts that I don't want to dox.

Glory to God. For believers in Jesus, may the light of Christ guide you as it does me in difficult times. Wishing you all His peace and joy.

Happy Christmas, may we all keep this forum peaceful (but nonetheless compelling)!

Thanks to @dang!

Merry Christmas, Feliz Natal.

That reminds me I have to update my HN theme to have the Christmas theme

Merry Christmas everyone. I made a little something on AArch64 Assembly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385623

Merry Christmas!

"An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”"

-Luke 2

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is always a very hard time of year for some people, if you are struggling, just know you are not forgotten and I hope you can still have yourself a Merry little Christmas time. <3

Merry Christmas friends! I have a C64 Ultimate under the tree this year so looking to have a bit of retro fun that would make the HN community proud (after assembling all the kids stuff, of course).

Festivus for the rest of us!

https://youtu.be/1njzgXSzA-A?si=KIQy9e39lofX0aYP

#FestivusSavesTrees

My fav tree today: https://www.dwitter.net/d/34638

Merry Christmas everyone! My friends and family are on two different continents so it's very quiet this year.

I hope everyone has a wonderful, relaxing, and joyous time.

https://codepen.io/LimeWub/full/yQWbNW

Can't believe no one's regifted this present yet:

https://xkcd.com/835/

You'd think techies would be immune to religion, but then you realize that most of the people here are web devs, so that makes sense

and a healthy dose of Australian Christmas Stereotypes to all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amL8QRiDH2E

including not the original Rolf Harris version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQVEZLcBfS8

Buon Natale a tutti, che la coscienza ci pervada!

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Merry Christmas, I am glad HN is celebrating it.

https://easylang.online/xmas.html

Merry Christmas :)

Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas HN! Whether you celebrate it or not, hope you get some time off to spend with friends and/or family!

Merry Christmas from a long time HN lurker!

and on earth peace, good will toward men

Happy Ruby 4.0 day! Thanks Matz et al.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Merry Christmas to all! Hope your holidays are filled with cheer and the warmth of your loved ones.

Thanks! Merry Christmas for OP and all of you, too. Have a holiday season full of blessings!

Merry Christmas HN! Hope you're all enjoying quality time with loved ones (and good food!)

Merry Christmas

Christus natus est

O Χριστός γεννιέται

Христос раждается

המשיח נולד

ابن الله يولد اليوم

Thanks all for your contributions to positive chats on this site — have a joy filled holiday

Buon Natale a tutti! Che la coscienza pervada tutti i presenti in questo ottante ♥

Merry Christmas everyone!

Favorite Christmas movie?

Merry Christmas, HN! Thanks for being one of the bright spots in my/the internet.

Merry Christmas fellow HN'ers. I hope that 2026 is more sane with less drama.

Happy Belated Festivus. May you win a feat of strength, and air many grievances.

Merry Christmas Hacker News!!!

exponentially so https://xcancel.com/IIruoje/status/679604760325033984#m

this is what i did for you for christmas :)

https://www.adoptimize.de/weihnachten/editor.php

Merry x-mas. We all deserve love and happiness. Be kind to your neighboor.

Just got a bucket list item out of that article, so thank you for that

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everybody may this day bring you joy and happiness :)

圣诞快乐

Meri Yule!

Merry Christmas, bambini.

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone has wonderful time with family.

Sti-hilläh Na-hacht, hei-li-gäh Na-hacht.

Wir Frässähn bis die Schwarte kracht!

And a special hello to those of us at work this morning!

Merry Christmas!! you gentle nerds you! Peace to us all.

"A Spaceman Came Travelling" - Chris de Burgh

Merry Christmas, HN. Thanks for a lovely daily read!

Happy Winter Solstice (resurrection of the sun)

Happy Yalda (Yuletide)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalda_Night

Merry Christmas to all or whatever you celebrate!

Merry Christmas to everyone and a Happy New Year

Merry Christmas y'all keep promptin'

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Hey, Merry Christmas. Thanks for posting.

I was surprised to see HN change colour.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Happy Christmas, and Merry New Year!

I hope you all have a nice day!

Merry Christmas from Montreal!

Merry Christmas everyone! <3

Merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad!

A Merry Christmas to everyone !

Tidings and good cheer to all.

Twas brillig, and Santas toes were freezing in the sleigh.

All icey were the Reindeer hooves, moody and unlikely they were to play.

Then Christmas Eve did come about and, Santa, mounted slay he did.

Present bag taken firm in hand, one for each and every kid.

Down-down-down chimney stacks around each and every town.

Milk and cookies, warmth and hearth.

Every present for every home. Boys and girls light and dark.

Good or bad, used to matter. But Santa had a change of heart.

We all mess up sometimes. And, sometimes, we need a brand new start.

Enjoy the gifts! Santa yelled, as the reindeer took off once again.

Be kind to one another all, and try to make new friends.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Merry x'mas everyone!

Merry Christmas, everybody!

♥

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas, hackers!

Merry Christmas everyone!

I'm a chronic lurker for most of the year but this is a good time to say this. I'm so thankful for this community that provides so much without succumbing to enshitification as some other parts of the Internet. Whether I'm passing time on a train or escaping an annoying group discussion, this is by far my favorite algorithmic feed to do so. Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas hackers!

Merry Christmas friends!

Merry Christmas to all!!

Happy birthday, Jesus!

Happy holidays HNers!

Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas to All

Merry Christmas, HN!

Blessed Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Merry Xmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas HN!

Merry Christmas HN!

Merry Christmas HN!

Merry Christmas HN

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas !

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

¡Feliz Navidad!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Cheers, friends!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Yuletide!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

enjoy your life

Happy holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Merry Xmas HN!

Feliz Natal!

Merry Xmas!

What a year!

Merry Christmas! Christ is King.

Merry XMAS!!

Porcoddio

Feliz natal

Crimmas!

merry christmas anon.

Merry Christmas HN! You're one of the few constants among the many variables in my life, please never change :)

Merry Christmas from Spain. Here's to another year of great times spent on a great site!

Merry Christmas everyone! ———

“At the very moment that Augustus is making decrees as the ruler of the known world, and Herod is seething in his palace, God enters stage right. Not on the clouds, asserting his power and dominance, not with all the strength and might he rightly has. But in humility. Doing so with a profound statement that he is turning all our preconceived notions completely upside down.

One of the most beautiful, yet often overlooked, components to this story is Mary’s reaction to the news of her Son. In church tradition we call her carol The Magnificat:

“My soul exalts the Lord, and my spirit has begun to rejoice in God my Savior, because he has looked upon the humble state of his servant.

For from now on all generations will call me blessed, because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name; from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear him.

He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.

He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position; he has filled the hungry with good things, and has sent the rich away empty.

He has helped his servant Israel, remembering his mercy, as he promised to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.” (Luke 1:46-55)

Amidst all the interpretations of Christmas that we hear at this time of year from clergy, advertisers, politicians, and journalists, we might benefit from listening to the mother who sits at the centre of it all. According to Mary, Christmas is about God scattering the proud, bringing down unjust rulers, lifting up the humble. It’s about God turning things upside down— which ironically is the right way up to begin with.

And God accomplishes all of this not “from on high,” like the decree of Augustus, or the brutality of Herod; instead, God achieves his purposes from below in the lowliness of a manger. With shepherds, livestock, and foreign magi as the first witnesses.

Christmas is about God turning things upside down—which ironically is the right way up to begin with.

Every detail about the Christmas story (and the subsequent life of Jesus as well), states that God will reverse the mess and do so by first getting his own hands dirty. God conquers by humbling himself, he will heal by being wounded, he will save us by sacrificing himself. The manger is a throne, and works as a beacon of how God intends to turn everything upside down.

Grace triumphs over dominance, mercy over force, and Mary’s song will be the world’s song.

Joy will pierce through the sorrow and sadness, fully and forever.”

- Wes Huff

Happy winter solstice! I used to like Christmas but current version of geopolitics and christo fascists really nerfed the joy of Christmas. Maybe they'll release a patch fix by next year

hello

Different times yes. It's also a political thing with people not wanting to call it or claim people don't want to call it Christmas (but holidays) and Ukraine changing their date a few years ago due to them not being Russia.

Merry Christmas everyone.

The United States is completely ran by pedophiles. Merry Christmas

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I'm on call this Christmas :')

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Prompt: create a christmas tree in ascii but that is a merkle tree

Answer: Here’s an ASCII Christmas tree that is also a Merkle tree (Each parent node is the hash of its two children; leaves are the “data blocks”.)

                   MERKLE TREE  

                       H(ROOT)
                      /       \
                 H(0-1)       H(2-3)
                 /   \         /   \
              H(0)  H(1)    H(2)  H(3)
              / \    / \     / \    / \
            D0  D0 D1 D1   D2 D2  D3 D3

                        H(ROOT) 
                        /       \
                H(0-1)         H(2-3) 
                  /   \           /   \
            H(0)   H(1)     H(2)   H(3) 
              / \     / \        / \     / \
            D0  D0  D1  D1     D2  D2  D3  D3
           (leaf)(leaf)(leaf) (leaf)(leaf)(leaf)

D0–D3 = data blocks (your “presents” )

H(0) = hash(D0 || D0) (duplicated leaf for balance, common in Merkle trees)

H(0-1) = hash(H(0) || H(1))

H(ROOT) = hash(H(0-1) || H(2-3))

If you want, I can:

generate a bigger tree (8, 16, 32 leaves),

make the hashes look like real hash strings,

or format it like a perfect triangular Christmas tree silhouette while keeping the Merkle parent/child layout.

-- Prompt: format it like a perfect triangular Christmas tree silhouette while keeping the Merkle parent/child layout.

Answer: You got it — here’s a perfect triangular Christmas tree silhouette that still preserves the Merkle parent/child layout (parents directly above their two children, leaves at the base).

                                H(ROOT) 
                              /           \
                    ┌────────H(0-3)────────┐
                   /                       \
            ┌────H(0-1)────┐         ┌────H(2-3)────┐
           /               \         /               \
       ┌─H(0)─┐         ┌─H(1)─┐ ┌─H(2)─┐         ┌─H(3)─┐
       /     \         /     \   /     \         /     \
     D0       D1     D2       D3 D4     D5     D6       D7
                                                

Here’s a slightly more “filled” version while keeping the structure valid:

                                    H(ROOT) 
                                  /           \
                         ──────H(0-3)──────
                               /               \
                     ─────H(0-1)─────   ─────H(2-3)─────
                           /         \           /         \
                   ───H(0)───   ───H(1)───   ───H(2)───   ───H(3)───
                        / \           / \           / \           / \
                      D0  D1        D2  D3        D4  D5        D6  D7

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Technically it’s merry Yule and Saturnalia, christ has nothing to do with it.