Hacker News with Generative AI: Holidays

Will FedACH process ACH payments on the National Day of Mourning, Jan 9, 2025? (moderntreasury.com)
On Thursday, January 9, 2025, the United States will observe a national day of mourning to honor the late President Jimmy Carter. While this is not a federal holiday, it has raised questions about business and banking operations.

Finance, Banking, Holidays, US Politics

22 points by mattmarcus 11 days ago | 2 comments

Tell HN: Happy New Year (ycombinator.com)
Tell HN: Happy New Year

Holidays, New Year's

5 points by miki123211 17 days ago | 0 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 24 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

The software you need for holiday overdecoration (dbos.dev)
People have been overdecorating for the holidays for a long time.

Software, Holidays, Humor

209 points by KraftyOne 26 days ago | 61 comments

Ask HN: What are you reading/learning/working on over the holiday break? (ycombinator.com)
This time of the year many people take time off to spend time with family and have extra free time to work on their own stuff (Python was famously created as a Christmas break project), so I’m curious how you’ll be using this extra time?

Programming, Personal Projects, Holidays, Learning

10 points by Anon84 28 days ago | 14 comments

Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions (wordpress.org)
In order to give myself and the many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays, we’re going to be pausing a few of the free services currently offered:

WordPress, Software, Open Source, Holidays, Volunteering

135 points by PuffinBlue 29 days ago | 114 comments

WordPress Takes a Holiday Break (wordpress.org)
In order to give myself and the many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays, we’re going to be pausing a few of the free services currently offered:

WordPress, Open Source, Community, Holidays

9 points by bordercontrol 29 days ago | 1 comments

Why heart attacks spike during the winter holidays (news.northwestern.edu)
Whether it’s due to cold weather, holiday stress or disrupted routines — or a combination of all three — heart attack and stroke rates surge during the last two weeks of December, warns Northwestern Medicine cardiologist Dr. Patricia Vassallo.

Health, Winter, Holidays, Heart Disease

14 points by gnabgib 31 days ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays? (ycombinator.com)
Happy holidays HN. I am hoping to continue the generosity, tradition, and good will of Alexander Thomas Drummond (u/atdrummond), who contributed tens of thousands of dollars to community members here during the Holidays to help people who were struggling [1].

Community, Holidays, Help, Giving, Philanthropy

174 points by toomuchtodo 47 days ago | 45 comments

Black Friday is a trap (vox.com)
Since the 1980s, Black Friday has signified the kickoff to the holiday shopping season.

Black Friday, Shopping, Consumerism, Holidays

28 points by lr0 49 days ago | 40 comments

Happy Thanksgiving (ycombinator.com)
Just grateful

Holidays, Gratitude

10 points by emreb 51 days ago | 0 comments

Coca-Cola's annual Christmas commercial this year is AI-generated (twitter.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Advertising, Marketing, Holidays, Coca-Cola

5 points by amrrs 63 days ago | 8 comments

Six inane arguments about EVs and how to handle them at the dinner table (arstechnica.com)
The holiday season is fast approaching, and with it, all manner of uncomfortable conversations with relatives who think they know a lot about a lot but are in fact just walking examples of Dunning-Kruger in action.

Electric Vehicles, Social Media, Holidays, Arguments

17 points by rbanffy 64 days ago | 59 comments

Happy Exploding Whale Day [video] (youtube.com)

Humor, Video, Holidays

19 points by voxadam 66 days ago | 2 comments

You can create your own holiday (near.blog)
You can create your own holidays! On this page I share some of mine.

Holidays, Personal Projects, Creative Ideas

20 points by neiman 103 days ago | 14 comments

Happy Independence Day, US HN Users (ycombinator.com)

Holidays, United States, Hacker News

10 points by chirau 197 days ago | 2 comments

Happy Father's Day (ycombinator.com)