Happy NYE! Was a big one for me: went sober. Alcohol became my band-aid solution for everything, which ended up with me ignoring things that needed to be done and putting my relationships, job, and health at major risk. I am now 10 months sober and beyond relieved to not be where I was one year ago. I found my dream job in the process, and was able to transition out of an old job that felt stale and holding me back. There is still lot's of progress to be made.
I’m going into 2026 about 100 pounds down since last new years. I’m excited to see what the future holds when I’m in the best physical shape of my life. GLP-1 inhibitors are a modern miracle (admittedly to solve a modern problem). I realize now I wasn’t active because I was fat, not vice versa. I rode hundreds of miles on my bike this year, towing my wheelchair using daughter along for the ride in a bike trailer. If you’re in a situation where you feel losing weight is hopeless, I strongly encourage you to consider these medications. It could change your life for the better, in strange ways you might not expect. I also paid off all my credit cards (and cancelled them) this year, and I swear it was only possible because losing weight has allowed me to be a better and more cognizant long term planner.
Here’s to a great year of self improvement and refinement. Happy new years everyone!
2025: My first full year of running my own business, and things really went well. Also had my second child, a beautiful daughter who is currently not sleeping well at night. I am so tired. I lost my dog suddenly - he was my first dog and my companion for nine years. I love that guy so much.
Happy new year everyone
Some good stuff in 25 for me
- went to Yellowstone
- dislocated my shoulder for the first time, went to pt and feel better than ever
- switched jobs for higher pay and better wlb
- started getting into game dev with the goal of releasing in summer 26!
Here’s to a great 2026 everyone!!
Just solo, trying to keep my scope small and since I’m making a “casino rougelite” type of game the main focus will be on the depth of the systems and upgrades.
My wrap includes getting married, travelling to Italy, Slovenia and Germany, finally making a few sales of the app I'm working on, and dealing with residence permit. In 2026 I will continue working on my apps and hopefully make more sales, I hope to do some freelancing, fish more with dad and travel a bit.
- Visited/lived in: Austria, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, UAE
- Started (too many) side-projects
- Managed to grow a number of projects / startups
- Almost back to PRs: deadlift 155k, squat 90k, bench 80k
Ideas for 2026
- Focus on getting things done / releasing stuff rather than starting / release an app (iOS/Android)
- Triple revenue
- Visit 12 countries I haven't visited before (Morocco, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Malta, Cyprus, Brazil, Peru, Chile)
- Deadlift 200k, squat 120k, bench 100k; lose 10k BW
- Learn formatting on HN :)
Still some five hours to go here in Norway, but it has been dark outside for a few hours already.
Dinner is just about ready, friends pouring in the doors as we speak and as for fireworks, seeing as we live quite rurally, a couple of kilos of dynamite is at the ready.
Professionally, 2025 has been kind to me. Got to visit Japan and Libya for the first time and am going back to Japan next week for a scientific cruise down to the Mariana trench or thereabouts; when back, I will start working on the next generation control system for our products, having spent the past few months trying to learn enough about control system architecture to hopefully avoid the most obvious pitfalls.
Oh, and I have learned from painful experience a few of the things NOT to do evaluating the current design...
Happy new year from SF. 2025 was about hanging on, balancing a heavy workload and a new baby, but in ways which I’m confident are the right decisions for our future. I did a lot of Becoming An Adult this year, learning to trust myself and my partner, and prioritizing what matters. 2026 will probably be more of the same..! But I am hopeful things should ease up over time.
Happy new year, this community has given me a lot and I’m grateful for you all.
2025:
- set up new facility for mfg of CVD diamond tech products
- replaced awful old carpets at home with bamboo wood floors
- lost 42 lbs (thanks, tirzepatide)
- secured $ for a new CVD diamond system, build starts in January
- road trip to see friends & family, some for first time in a decade
Wishing happiness, love, accomplishment and adventure to all!
You guys are all truly wonderful, otherwise you wouldn't be here.
As from someone who started my own company last year and decided to dive into a dozen of projects, reached new milestones and a lot of success, but suffered from severe burnout and depression:
Remember - you can do anything, but not everything. Choose what to focus on and what makes you happy and go for it.
Happy 2026!
We started traveling a lot post Covid and after all of the stars aligned for us. But this is the first year that we have done any international travel besides flights Mexico (cruises don’t count).
We went to Costa Rica (Manual Antonio), London with a day trip to France and Canada (landed in Buffalo NY).
We are going to see if Costa Rica is a good Plan B when we retire on paper (I am 51) it looks good. We are staying for a month next year. I work remotely.
As far as side projects? I plan to continue my 30 year next year streak of never doing anything software development outside of work. Between continuing to learn Spanish, exercise, and spending time with family and friends, I’ve got enough on my plate.
The perfect square year is now over...next one is 2116. Silly thing to note, but I am thankful for being able to live in such a year. Additionally, 2025 was quite transformative to my life. Where I am today, in terms of career and personal connections, I wouldn't have expected to be here even two years ago.
It was a crazy year. Spent half of it living in my college building (Read about huge nationwide student protests in Serbia where students blocked all colleges because of the government corruption for almost 9 months).
Happy New Year HN! Grateful for the insights I get every morning from fellow humans through the comments.
This year I sold my company, for a while I thought I will die with it. This year has been brutal in some ways, tackling lots of daemons and getting through them.
Wishing everyone a great new year celebrations with friends and family.
Okay, not unthinkable but I would think it is very difficult. I'm hoping a country who has never won a WC to be champions this year. Croatia and Netherlands have done well in the last few. Cape Verde and Curaçao have also never won.
This year I got my PhD (focused in robotics) and walked the camino del norte (a pilgrimage in Spain).
I am trying to transition from academia to industry without success (for now) and several threads here on HN remind me I am not alone in this.
2025 I'm proud of my 2025. I lost weight with a slow pace. I launched one of my projects and built on top of it and I'm currently at 99 items sold. Hopefull it will get to 100 by end of the year. Not gonna lie, bad stuff happened too, but I'm not gonna focus on those.
2026 If everything goes as planned, I'm hoping to see my my mother and brother after 4 years. I want live a bit healthier, and I want to grow the same side project. I really hope I scroll less shitty content.
This is the community I feel safe the most in and really helps me keep going everyday.
Finally got my first GitHub repo to 100 stars (yesterday!) so that is something I'm really dang proud of. This year, I do have my Cambridge A Level Examinations coming up, hopefully I don't mess it up as bad as I did for my O Level Exams...
Hoping to see the start of the AI-powered technological singularity in 2026. The end of humanity is nigh and I can't wait to be melded to the machine. This life was kind of boring anyway.
Happy New Year man!
Have very similar goals, even JLPT 5, started a little pet project I've been building https://sharyphil.com/japanese/japanese.html , gym goals too, let's go for it!
This year, I got engaged to my favorite person on memorial day. Then yesterday, my fiancee said she actually doesn't want to have kids, despite being the only man ever she had considered having a family with. So it was a whole night of turmoil, and tears, and we slept in separate beds for the first time last night. I guess we are parting amicably. She says that I will be a great father someday and I guess we are breaking up, even though we still love each other. I'm not taking this news well.
This year let’s all act kindly towards others and learn and discuss things in civil tones. In a world where Reddit is the norm, make Hacker News a beacon of hope.
Happy NYE! Was a big one for me: went sober. Alcohol became my band-aid solution for everything, which ended up with me ignoring things that needed to be done and putting my relationships, job, and health at major risk. I am now 10 months sober and beyond relieved to not be where I was one year ago. I found my dream job in the process, and was able to transition out of an old job that felt stale and holding me back. There is still lot's of progress to be made.
Good for you. Quitting alcohol isn't easy, and you should feel proud.
This is my dads first year sober! I'm super proud of both you and my dad =)
Happy new year!
I’m going into 2026 about 100 pounds down since last new years. I’m excited to see what the future holds when I’m in the best physical shape of my life. GLP-1 inhibitors are a modern miracle (admittedly to solve a modern problem). I realize now I wasn’t active because I was fat, not vice versa. I rode hundreds of miles on my bike this year, towing my wheelchair using daughter along for the ride in a bike trailer. If you’re in a situation where you feel losing weight is hopeless, I strongly encourage you to consider these medications. It could change your life for the better, in strange ways you might not expect. I also paid off all my credit cards (and cancelled them) this year, and I swear it was only possible because losing weight has allowed me to be a better and more cognizant long term planner.
Here’s to a great year of self improvement and refinement. Happy new years everyone!
2025 highlights
- Got 300+ stars on GitHub for my free, open-source project EasyInvoicePDF https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf
- Received a lot of great and useful feedback about my project on social media
- Moved to a new apartment - better and bigger
- Lost 5+ kg and exercised more than last year
- Visited Hungary, Austria, and Italy for the first time - Hungary and Italy exceeded expectations
- My project was featured in a large startup-related Telegram channel (50k+ subscribers)
Happy New Year
2025 wrap
Got an internship
Rejected a lowpay job offer
Quit the 9 – 5
Built my own SaaS in 15 days as a self-taught dev
Got 250+ users on my app
Made my first sales before even consuming my 1-month stipend savings
Crossed $100+ in December revenue
Learned coding + marketing
Didn’t skip the gym
That's a big pull, > 3x BW is beast territory, respect
Congrats! Making a Saas app is my dream. Never figured out a market/use case :(
Dont worry mate. Keep on working and building. Build in Public. Show your work on X. Let's connect on X I am @besharan_ on X
Betting on myself too
Congrats on the PR :)
Thanks mate
Impressive deadlift
wow keep doing it ;)
Had a pretty bad year. Hoping 2026 will be way better! Happy new year everybody
Happy New Year!
2025: My first full year of running my own business, and things really went well. Also had my second child, a beautiful daughter who is currently not sleeping well at night. I am so tired. I lost my dog suddenly - he was my first dog and my companion for nine years. I love that guy so much.
I can feel the pain my brother. I too lost my dog (my brother) who was with me from 14 years.
Happy New Year, everyone. To the entrepreneurs, may you get sticky customers with negative churn, and may they subscribe to your highest $$ plan.
And to the customers, may you be free to move about between vendors without lock-in and get the best deals for what you need.
Happy new year everyone Some good stuff in 25 for me - went to Yellowstone - dislocated my shoulder for the first time, went to pt and feel better than ever - switched jobs for higher pay and better wlb - started getting into game dev with the goal of releasing in summer 26! Here’s to a great 2026 everyone!!
Love that. Are you working solo or on a small team for the game?
Just solo, trying to keep my scope small and since I’m making a “casino rougelite” type of game the main focus will be on the depth of the systems and upgrades.
Sounds fun. You never know if you'll hit that Balatro magic.
Happy New Year from Bucharest!
My wrap includes getting married, travelling to Italy, Slovenia and Germany, finally making a few sales of the app I'm working on, and dealing with residence permit. In 2026 I will continue working on my apps and hopefully make more sales, I hope to do some freelancing, fish more with dad and travel a bit.
Happy New Year everyone!
2025
Ideas for 2026Happy New Year from Shenzhen. Countdown in 1h45m. If anyone in Shenzhen wants to cheers, I shall be at Revolucion Cocktail.
Happy new year!
This year turned out to be bad due to burnout, hoping 2026 will be better for everyone!
Happy new year indeed!
Still some five hours to go here in Norway, but it has been dark outside for a few hours already.
Dinner is just about ready, friends pouring in the doors as we speak and as for fireworks, seeing as we live quite rurally, a couple of kilos of dynamite is at the ready.
Professionally, 2025 has been kind to me. Got to visit Japan and Libya for the first time and am going back to Japan next week for a scientific cruise down to the Mariana trench or thereabouts; when back, I will start working on the next generation control system for our products, having spent the past few months trying to learn enough about control system architecture to hopefully avoid the most obvious pitfalls.
Oh, and I have learned from painful experience a few of the things NOT to do evaluating the current design...
Happy New Year!
In 2025 I:
- read 52 books with a total of 17924 pages
- hiked 41 times with a total of 533.1 kilometres
- wrote 225 blog posts --> https://peterspath.net
- moved 2781.2 kilometres by walking, hiking, biking, swimming, running, etc.
Happy new year from SF. 2025 was about hanging on, balancing a heavy workload and a new baby, but in ways which I’m confident are the right decisions for our future. I did a lot of Becoming An Adult this year, learning to trust myself and my partner, and prioritizing what matters. 2026 will probably be more of the same..! But I am hopeful things should ease up over time.
Happy new year, this community has given me a lot and I’m grateful for you all.
Happy New Years! I can't believe it's already 2026. Posting from a flight back to the UK. Having wifi in the sky, we really are living in the future.
2025 wrapped: https://duti.dev/blog/2025/2025-in-a-nutshell/
Putting this down as my 2026 goal: At least one commit a day. Stop putting things off.
Happy New Year from the Sierra Nevada foothills.
2025: - set up new facility for mfg of CVD diamond tech products - replaced awful old carpets at home with bamboo wood floors - lost 42 lbs (thanks, tirzepatide) - secured $ for a new CVD diamond system, build starts in January - road trip to see friends & family, some for first time in a decade
Wishing happiness, love, accomplishment and adventure to all!
What are you going to bling out?
Happy New Year everyone!
You guys are all truly wonderful, otherwise you wouldn't be here.
As from someone who started my own company last year and decided to dive into a dozen of projects, reached new milestones and a lot of success, but suffered from severe burnout and depression:
Remember - you can do anything, but not everything. Choose what to focus on and what makes you happy and go for it. Happy 2026!
Happy NYE!
We started traveling a lot post Covid and after all of the stars aligned for us. But this is the first year that we have done any international travel besides flights Mexico (cruises don’t count).
We went to Costa Rica (Manual Antonio), London with a day trip to France and Canada (landed in Buffalo NY).
We are going to see if Costa Rica is a good Plan B when we retire on paper (I am 51) it looks good. We are staying for a month next year. I work remotely.
As far as side projects? I plan to continue my 30 year next year streak of never doing anything software development outside of work. Between continuing to learn Spanish, exercise, and spending time with family and friends, I’ve got enough on my plate.
Happy New Year from Japan!
The perfect square year is now over...next one is 2116. Silly thing to note, but I am thankful for being able to live in such a year. Additionally, 2025 was quite transformative to my life. Where I am today, in terms of career and personal connections, I wouldn't have expected to be here even two years ago.
Happy New Year HN! Representing sub saharan Africa
Exactly one year ago, we started tirreno on New Year’s night at Show HN. Today, we’re nearly at 1k stars and dozens of releases in.
Thanks so much, HN, for this year.
H_N_Y from the Alps!
Product security analytics
https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
It was a crazy year. Spent half of it living in my college building (Read about huge nationwide student protests in Serbia where students blocked all colleges because of the government corruption for almost 9 months).
Happy New Year HN! Grateful for the insights I get every morning from fellow humans through the comments.
This year I sold my company, for a while I thought I will die with it. This year has been brutal in some ways, tackling lots of daemons and getting through them.
Wishing everyone a great new year celebrations with friends and family.
Love you HN.
I wonder what events will transpire that will shape our world by this time next year.
There will be a new FIFA World Cup champion unless Argentina does the unthinkable.
No doubt regime change somewhere. Probably a massive cyber event that cripples critical infra. A magnitude 8+ earthquake in a populated area?
There will be a new FIFA World Cup champion unless Argentina does the unthinkable.
Maybe the hand of God will help them out again. ;)
(For people who aren't familiar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hand_of_God)
Is it really unthinkable that Argentina could defend successfully?
Okay, not unthinkable but I would think it is very difficult. I'm hoping a country who has never won a WC to be champions this year. Croatia and Netherlands have done well in the last few. Cape Verde and Curaçao have also never won.
Happy new year from Latvia! Coding highlights:
- Built a website for playing Riichi Mahjong https://online-riichi.com
Dear nerd blog, Happy New Year to you!
This year I got my PhD (focused in robotics) and walked the camino del norte (a pilgrimage in Spain). I am trying to transition from academia to industry without success (for now) and several threads here on HN remind me I am not alone in this.
Wish you the best people!
Happy New Year from Troy, Michigan. I spent much of 2025 recovering from microfracture knee surgery. I’m hopeful for better health in 2026.
Happy new year from Indore, India
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Happy New Year!
2025 I'm proud of my 2025. I lost weight with a slow pace. I launched one of my projects and built on top of it and I'm currently at 99 items sold. Hopefull it will get to 100 by end of the year. Not gonna lie, bad stuff happened too, but I'm not gonna focus on those.
2026 If everything goes as planned, I'm hoping to see my my mother and brother after 4 years. I want live a bit healthier, and I want to grow the same side project. I really hope I scroll less shitty content.
This is the community I feel safe the most in and really helps me keep going everyday.
Happy New Year from Singapore!
Finally got my first GitHub repo to 100 stars (yesterday!) so that is something I'm really dang proud of. This year, I do have my Cambridge A Level Examinations coming up, hopefully I don't mess it up as bad as I did for my O Level Exams...
I wish everyone a gentle start into the new year, and that it may bring you much health, love, and joy!
May 2026 be a much, much better year than this one!
Happy new year from Ireland!
Happy New Year HN, from Manchester in the UK
Happy New Year from Leipzig, Germany!
Eberswalde, Germany joining in the New Years wishes.
Happy New Year from Melbourne! May it be a good one :)
Feliz y próspero año para todos desde Colombia!
Happy New Year from Switzerland!
Happy New Year from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada!
May the odds be ever in your favour
Happy new year from the middle east! May 2026 be a year of peace and compassion <3
Happy New Year's Eve.
Hoping to see the start of the AI-powered technological singularity in 2026. The end of humanity is nigh and I can't wait to be melded to the machine. This life was kind of boring anyway.
Happy New Year from Cracow, Poland!
It was difficult, but overall great year. Looking forward what 2026 will bring.
Happy new year from Brazil! (Still some hours in 2025 to go)
Brazil mentioned!!!
Happy Hogmanay to everyone in HN land.
HNY from Sydney, Australia!
Happy New Year from Romania! Let there be highways to a good future, and a letter of law for everyone to follow!
Happy New Year from India
Happy New Year from Hungary! An exciting new year ahead for all of us!
నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు from India!
Ethiopia Happy New Year
Happy New Year from Belarus!!
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Happy New Year from Krasnoyarsk, Russia!
Happy New Year from Singapore!
Happy new year from Germany!
Happy New Year from Toronto!
Happy New Year from Australia :)
Happy new year everyone
Hope 2026 I can finish my todo list
- Got at least JLPT N5
- Work abroad
- Start working out again
Happy New Year man! Have very similar goals, even JLPT 5, started a little pet project I've been building https://sharyphil.com/japanese/japanese.html , gym goals too, let's go for it!
Happy New Year from Azerbaijan!
Happy new year from Norway!
This year, I got engaged to my favorite person on memorial day. Then yesterday, my fiancee said she actually doesn't want to have kids, despite being the only man ever she had considered having a family with. So it was a whole night of turmoil, and tears, and we slept in separate beds for the first time last night. I guess we are parting amicably. She says that I will be a great father someday and I guess we are breaking up, even though we still love each other. I'm not taking this news well.
HNY from Xizhou, Yunnan, China
Happy New year from Albania
Happy New Year from Western NY :-D
Happy New Year from AU
Happy New Year from Argentina
Happy New Year from Arkansas, USA!
This year let’s all act kindly towards others and learn and discuss things in civil tones. In a world where Reddit is the norm, make Hacker News a beacon of hope.
Happy New Year and the same hope from up here in Vermont
Happy new year from Estonia!
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Happy New Year from Nuneaton, UK!!
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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year to everybody!
Happy new year from Antwerp !
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Happy New Year from New York City!!
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from Indiana!
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Happy 2026 from Sydney to your hearts!
For all of our sake I hope it will be better than 2025
Happy New Year from Oslo!
Happy new year from ISS!
Just kidding. AU!
Happy new year from China !!
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Happy new year from my heart
Happy 2026 from Venice, Italy!
Happy new year from Greece!
Φίλε έχουμε ακόμα κάνα οχτάωρο... Happy new year anyway!
Happy New Year from Bolivia!
Happy new year from Nepal!
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Happy new year from New York!
Happy new year folks!
Happy new year everyone!
Happy New Year from India
Happy new year, 2025 was another bummer but here's to 2026.
Happy New Year! schappim.
Happy New Year from Canada!