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Tell HN: Merry Christmas

1359•basilikum•13h ago•320 comments

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Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs

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Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?

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Looking for Decent Conversation?

89•kmstout•16h ago•13 comments

Ask HN: HarmonyOS Open Source Development

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Tell HN: Merry Christmas

86•franze•1d ago•53 comments

Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

428•nishilpatel•2d ago•127 comments

Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff

38•creativesage•17h ago•24 comments

Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?

11•gist•11h ago•10 comments

Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal

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Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

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Ask HN: Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras?

6•ray__•13h ago•0 comments

Could the optimal vibe coder be fundamentally different from the optimal SWE?

3•inshard•14h ago•2 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

17•teruakohatu•1d ago•4 comments

Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

129•scapbi•2d ago•66 comments

Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust

16•mikethe•2d ago•30 comments

Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?

11•onesandofgrain•11h ago•11 comments

Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?

19•allenleee•3d ago•18 comments

Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?

15•postit•1d ago•15 comments

GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs

9•pera•21h ago•6 comments

Ask HN: Which is the best sync engine?

5•olivieropinotti•1d ago•3 comments

Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?

12•rcarmo•1d ago•17 comments

Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video?

3•slroger•1d ago•7 comments

Ask HN: Do you have an exit plan for Slack?

7•gtirloni•17h ago•4 comments

Ask HN: How do you use the "waiting time" while Claude (other LLMs) is working?

7•pedrodelfino•19h ago•5 comments

Ask HN: Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone?

3•ge96•1d ago•2 comments

I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end

17•ajtracysk•3d ago•13 comments

SSH Tiny.christmas

9•cyanbane•17h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?

11•onesandofgrain•11h ago

Comments

xenospn•11h ago
Yes. It happens every year.
orionblastar•11h ago
12/25 https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Nakatomi_Plaza never forget, at Midnight, Hans Gruber falls off the tower. :)
WarOnPrivacy•11h ago
The Christmas color scheme is a bit off for me. The title bar is too light to read.

I turned off my dark theme and the page became high-contrast chromatic in my browser. It is readable like that, if brutally so.

pohl•11h ago
and green
dang•10h ago
Someone should make a compendium of all the "Tell HN: Merry Christmas" and corresponding "Ask HN: Why did the colors change?" threads over the years. It would be fun, and is probably be a good fit for semantic search.
tptacek•8h ago
Wrong answers only! It's a secret feature of HN, like the black bar, but for when someone has made Dan angry.
dadrian•8h ago
It's not red! You're just colorblind.
throwaway2046•8h ago
Black bar?
akerl_•7h ago
It’s like a grizzly bar, but mostly found on the east coast.
brightmood•5h ago
Made a request so I can keep using that when Christmas is over. It makes HN usable to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382452
Yash16•5h ago
The red looks great overall. Changing the text to white might improve contrast and readability. I experimented with red in my app, but it didn’t work visually, so I moved to a snowfall theme.