<story><title>Tell HN: Thank You</title><text>On Christmas Eve I made a post trying to ensure that all of our fellow users were at the very least safe and fed over the holiday weekend.&lt;p&gt;Thanks to your help, I was able to distribute to over 40 people&amp;#x2F;families nearly $8000 worth of food, hotels and cash.&lt;p&gt;I will try to ensure we do this type of thing more often; while I was surprised by the level of need in the community, I was even more impressed by the desire to help fix it.&lt;p&gt;Thank you everyone.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Kelamir</author><text>Thank you too! With the war in my country, we&amp;#x27;re barely meeting ends, and couldn&amp;#x27;t prepare for Christmas. I wasn&amp;#x27;t sure about asking for help, but we&amp;#x27;ve been struggling for a while, and even the holidays weren&amp;#x27;t looking to be any cheer for us. Although I doubted that we deserved it - there are many people who have it much worse, forced out of their houses, - I still reached out. I don&amp;#x27;t know if it&amp;#x27;s right of me to do so, but I surely am glad to see my family having better holidays.&lt;p&gt;I feel depressed about life, following news, and the world feels ever more grim. Just two days ago I found out that a developer of one of my favorite games &amp;quot;Stalker Clear Sky&amp;quot;, died in Bakhmut, fighting on the front lines... And there are suicide drones and rockets flying by my location occasionally. We have regular electricity shutdowns.&lt;p&gt;But this helps. We&amp;#x27;ve bought Christmas presents for my brother, got food to last the days, and we&amp;#x27;ll have a good celebration for New Year, what with a cake, meat and other foods of value. It&amp;#x27;s a kindness that makes me feel better about the world and people out there.&lt;p&gt;Thanks :))</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: Thank You</title><text>On Christmas Eve I made a post trying to ensure that all of our fellow users were at the very least safe and fed over the holiday weekend.&lt;p&gt;Thanks to your help, I was able to distribute to over 40 people&amp;#x2F;families nearly $8000 worth of food, hotels and cash.&lt;p&gt;I will try to ensure we do this type of thing more often; while I was surprised by the level of need in the community, I was even more impressed by the desire to help fix it.&lt;p&gt;Thank you everyone.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oars</author><text>In my mind, I have an image that the median HN user works at a startup or FAANG company, getting paid a generous salary and living comfortably enough to not need to worry about these basic needs.&lt;p&gt;Thank you for highlighting that there are others out there who down on their luck (to put it mildly), with many things out of control. For example, the user who posted from Ukraine really struck a chord with me. Who would&amp;#x27;ve thought last Christmas that this one would be so different for Ukrainians?&lt;p&gt;What you have done is amazing. HN is truly a fantastic community. I wish everyone a wonderful and happy holidays.</text></comment>