alt Hacker NewsTell HN: Merry Christmas
Different cultures celebrate Christmas at different days and time zones are a thing. But it's Christmas here, so:
Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you get some rest and can spend time with people who are dear to you and get to focus on what's important rather than getting lost in stressing about everything having to be perfect.
Also much love to everyone who cannot spend their Christmas with dear people.
To make sure this post meets the relevancy criteria, here is a Wikipedia article about some Christmas (more precisely advent) tradition which I personally really like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market
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Meanwhile almost nobody noticed this page:
>single html file, no frameworks, images or webgl
Happy Holidays https://xe.dev/xmas 2 points by jFriedensreich 15 hours ago
Merry Xmas Everyone!
Sti-hilläh Na-hacht, hei-li-gäh Na-hacht.
Wir Frässähn bis die Schwarte kracht!
Merry Xmas HN!
Blessed Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Merry Christmas HN!
Happy holidays!
What a year!
Merry Christmas to all!
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
Merry XMAS!!
Merry Christmas HN
Feliz natal
Merry Christmas HN! You're one of the few constants among the many variables in my life, please never change :)
Merry Christmas!
enjoy your life
Merry Christmas!
Can't believe no one's regifted this present yet:
hello
Merry Christmas! Christ is King.
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!
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Merry Christmas Obsessed with this AI image prompt: “Awkward 90s Christmas Studio Portrait” https://picxstudio.com/templates/298-awkward-90s-christmas-s...
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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
Technically it’s merry Yule and Saturnalia, christ has nothing to do with it.
Merry Christmas!