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You're reading Hacker News and you want to know why someone would bother reverse engineering a closed source platform?

• forgottenpass 11y ago
  To be fair, Hacker is weird misnomer in many ways. It's starutp-scene-connected-tech-heavy-news more than anything else.
  • kuschku 11y ago
    Which can also be seen in the fact that the general consensus on startup-news is often the opposite of what the actual hackers, for example those who are in the CCC, think.
    • oblio 11y ago
      CCC = ?
      • deleted 11y ago
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      • Bob_Sheep 11y ago
        Chaos Computer Club
    • fimdomeio 11y ago
      Oblio that's leet speak. hacker history (well and present) nothing that a google search won't clarify.
  • nota_bene 11y ago
    > It's starutp-scene-connected-tech-heavy-news more than anything else. Yes, and that's because it is a very powerful marketing tool for Paul Graham's huge YC business.
  • nailer 11y ago
    It used to be called Startup News.