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Does anyone else remember the 12 pains of Christmas?

RIGGING UP THE LIGHTS!!

Yo-ho, sending Christmas cards.

The damn lightS!!!

Facing my in laws!

One light goes out, they all go out!!!!!!!

FiiiiiIIIIIIiiiive months of bills!!

She's a witch, I hate her.

You're so smart, YOU rig up the lights!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMxgttJpbZE


It was several years after first time I heard this that, that i realized that #3 was an impression of Archie Bunker with: "Edith, get me a beer, huh.", "oh jeez look at this" and "oh who's got the terlit paper."

There’s probably not too many folks here, that even remember that show.

R.I.P. Meathead


I wonder how those subtitles were made.

Reminds me of the “Misheard Joe Cocker Lyrics” video: https://vimeo.com/448217206


How about the add-ons/call-backs to Rudolph the Red nosed reindeer:

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer *(reindeer)*

Had a very shiny nose *(like a light bulb)*

And if you ever saw it *(saw it)*

You would even say it glows *(like a light bulb)*

All of the other reindeer *(reindeer)*

Used to laugh and call him names *(like Pinochio)*

They never let poor Rudolph *(Rudolph)*

Play in any reindeer games *(like Monopoly)*

Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say *(Ho Ho Ho)*

Rudolph with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight? Then all the reindeer loved him *(loved him)*

And they shouted out with glee *(yippee)*

"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer *(reindeer)*

You'll go down in history!" *(Like George Washington!")*



Here's to a happy and healthy 2026!

Thanks HN for all the thoughtful comments and interesting articles.


Generally when I post something unflattering about Tesla, Meta or Airbnb it gets flagged. Just a pattern I've noticed. The Tesla ones get flagged the fastest!


I've gotten fooled by these fake-movie trailers before, ones made by AI and ones made of "fan edits" using the actors from other scenes. It's definitely annoying, especially when you're anticipating a film and excited to see the new trailer, it's weirdly bad or off and then you realize it's a fake trailer!

> Screen Culture had created 23 versions of a trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps by March, some of which outranked the official trailer in YouTube search results. More recent examples include HBO’s new Harry Potter series and Netflix’s Wednesday.

Also this is interesting:

> Our deep dive into fake trailers revealed that instead of protecting copyright on these videos, a handful of Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros Discovery and Sony, secretly asked YouTube to ensure that the ad revenue from the AI-heavy videos flowed in their direction.

https://deadline.com/2025/03/youtube-ad-revenue-fake-movie-t...


I had a creepy one like this happen to me with Linkedin. I sold my uncle's guitar on craigslist using a throwaway gmail address to a guy with a very unique, rhyming name that I would never forget (ie - Gerald Herald). Immediately after he left with the guitar linkedin suggests I add him to my professional network. I never logged in to linkedin from that gmail, never looked this guy up, don't have linkedin app installed on my phone, literally met him for 60 seconds to get cash and hand over a guitar. It still weirds me out.

Did you both have location on? Were you both connected to the same wifi?

Did he do any research on you beforehand?

Did you and him both search the same guitar model, in the same days, while in the same area?


I saw this post on reddit where some sketchy AI company (Alpheva AI) is posting jobs and requesting a screenshot of all applicants having left their app a 5-star review in the app store as part of the application process:

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/1pp0iej/thi...


This is another thing were it clearly is illegal, but good luck actually trying to sue or get them to stop it. Worst case scenario they'll set up another cheap company on paper, and keep doing the same scam

When BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) came to Pleasanton CA my fox-news brainwashed racist aunt and uncle and their neighbors where legitimately convinced black people from Oakland were going to come take BART out from Oakland and steal their TVs. And this was back in the day of the giant bulky heavy-backed rear-projection TVs. I was like... first of all they drive cars now and second of all who is going to take BART to come rob you and third of all who would want to carry this stupid heavy thing!! And if they were going to take your 150lb TV they would need a truck and a dolly, not take public transit to do so.

Pleasanton remained safe and bland despite allowing evil public transit.


> who would want to carry this stupid heavy thing

BART service started in Pleasanton in 1997. In 1992 or 1993 I had a glass CRT TV stolen during a burglary at our house in exurban Connecticut. There's no reason to claim that TV theft is some myth. It was a crime that did in fact happen.


Did the thief take transit, though? We had a similar NIMBY argument in the area where some totally-not-racist people said thieves were going to bike from a predominantly black neighborhood 15 miles away to steal TVs, and it was so blatantly wrong that the local chief of police noted that the burglars they catch use stolen trucks or SUVs for the cargo capacity.

I only addressed "who would want to carry this stupid heavy thing" because that's the only part of the comment I objected to. By now it seems like everyone is reading it as "who would want to carry this stupid heavy thing for the duration of a light rail ride" whereas I read it as "who would want to carry this stupid heavy thing at all" and I'm the odd one out.

Ummm... Something tells me they didn't take the train to come steal your TV.

the did not, no. That's why I did not address that part of the comment, only the part claiming that no miscreant would want to carry a heavy TV.

The spirit of my comment is that they wouldn't take public transit to come steal TVs because nobody would intentionally schlep a giant stolen tv via public transit, they most likely would use cars.

yeah it turns out everyone else read the end of that sentence one way and I went the other. Although the image of a train car full of straphanger burglars with a tube TV between their legs, reading a newspaper folded into 1/8ths with their free hands is kind of funny.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304608


Yet another biotech with promising cancer therapies but struggled with clinical and regulatory operations. Telomerase-based cancer therapy has potential for broad applicability unlike targeted therapies, so their “platform” potential is why Geron attracted so much attention and funding despite execution setbacks.

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