Hacker News with Generative AI: Christmas

Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers (theregister.com)
Christmas 1984 marked the last hurrah for the home computer market as it once was.
History, Technology, Retro Computing, Christmas, Consumer Electronics
5 points by timthorn 21 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Handwritten Christmas Card for Hacker News (vercel.app)
Hacker News, Christmas, Web Development
66 points by muc-martin 21 days ago | 15 comments
Christmas Punch Requires a Formerly Forbidden Fruit (atlasobscura.com)
In Mexico, ponche Navideño—or Christmas punch—is a holiday classic, served up at parties and posadas, neighborhood-wide re-enactments of Mary and Joseph seeking shelter for the birth of Jesus. “Christmas in particular has so many foods and rituals attached to it. So you would have your ponche and your tamales,” says Lesley Téllez, a food writer and the author of the cookbook Eat Mexico.
Food, Mexico, Holidays, Christmas
47 points by juanplusjuan 23 days ago | 19 comments
Merry Christmas Everyone (ycombinator.com)
What are some of your favorite memories from Christmas? Share them here :)
Christmas, Holidays, Memories
1503 points by joshagilend 24 days ago | 383 comments
Merry Christmas (ycombinator.com)
Merry Christmas
Holidays, Christmas
24 points by aabiji 24 days ago | 5 comments
T * sin (t)' ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013) (wolfram.com)
Mathematics, Art, Christmas, Visualizations
401 points by ryeguy_24 24 days ago | 44 comments
Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner (windowslatest.com)
The Christmas.exe in Task Manager and the Christmas theme wreath banner that covers half of your screen on Windows 11 are not malware but a new promotional campaign by ASUS on some PCs. It’s causing panic among users who spotted the banner on their PCs in the third week of December.
Windows, Malware, Asus, Marketing, Christmas
12 points by croes 25 days ago | 5 comments
NASA solar probe to make its closest ever pass of sun on Christmas Eve (theguardian.com)
Nasa’s Parker solar probe is attempting its closest ever flyby of the sun, passing 3.8m miles from its surface on Christmas Eve.
Space Exploration, NASA, Solar System, Christmas
12 points by isaacfrond 25 days ago | 0 comments
Multiple casualties after car drives into crowd at Christmas market in Germany (euronews.com)
Germany, Accidents, Christmas, News, Tragedy
11 points by jdiez17 28 days ago | 0 comments
Santa Prefers Wealthy Sick Children (2023) (taylor.town)
It has long been thought that Santa Claus gives presents to nice but not naughty children. This is the first study, to our knowledge, to dispel the myth that Santa visits children based on behaviour and suggests socioeconomic deprivation plays a greater role in determining a visit. It raises important ethical dilemmas, such as whether children should be told and what should be done about Santa.
Social Science, Christmas, Research
66 points by surprisetalk 30 days ago | 27 comments
GCHQ Christmas Challenge Puzzles (bbc.com)
Latin dancing, Indian butter and American soldiers are some of the clues for this year's cryptic Christmas challenge set by the national spy agency.
Cryptography, Puzzles, Security, Christmas, UK
6 points by dave333 35 days ago | 2 comments
December Adventure (Advent of Code alternative) (eli.li)
The Advent of Code is cool, but a lot, and not everyone’s jam.
Programming, Software, Christmas
16 points by triyambakam 47 days ago | 1 comments
Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com)
Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.
Programming, Puzzles, Coding Challenges, Advent Calendar, Christmas
1388 points by thinkingemote 48 days ago | 553 comments
Day 1 – Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com)
The Chief Historian is always present for the big Christmas sleigh launch, but nobody has seen him in months!
Programming, Puzzles, Christmas, Coding Challenges
7 points by praseodym 48 days ago | 3 comments
Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year? (ycombinator.com)
I'm looking for inspiration for the Christmas holidays.
Books, Recommendations, Christmas, Reading
117 points by christudor 50 days ago | 151 comments
New Comic Book: La BD de L'Avent, Le Lombard Publishing (davidrevoy.com)
A few months ago I wrote a short comic, a four-page one-shot, not about Pepper&Carrot, but about Christmas for Le Lombard publishing.
Comics, Publishing, Christmas
34 points by Tomte 57 days ago | 12 comments
Show HN: deploying a website just to transfer a file (lunesu.com)
Christmas is nearing, and this year I’m once again spending time in the Vancouver Hack Space to work on a silly Christmas project to turn a human-sized1 acrylic sphere into a snow globe.
Web Development, Christmas
13 points by lionello 59 days ago | 11 comments
Somebody please get me this desktop wind tunnel for Christmas (thedrive.com)
Sometimes, the answer to the question no one asked is the best answer of them all. No one genuinely needs a wind tunnel to put their toy cars in, and yet that’s precisely what a startup has been working to realize since late last year.
Christmas, Gadgets, Startups, Creative Projects
67 points by PaulHoule 76 days ago | 38 comments
Coca-Cola didn't invent Santa the 10 biggest Christmas myths debunked (2016) (theguardian.com)
Christmas, Myths, History, Coca-Cola, Culture
3 points by vinnyglennon 134 days ago | 1 comments
Christmas in Venezuela kicks off in October, President Maduro has declared (apnews.com)
Venezuela, Christmas, Politics
3 points by impish9208 136 days ago | 0 comments