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I am a CS person. If the article is not readily consumable for a CS person why is it on a website called "Hacker News"? Seems like a bad submission if you ask m

I am a CS person. If the article is not readily consumable for a CS person why is it on a website called "Hacker News"? Seems like a bad submission if you ask me...

Jedd 8y ago
> I am a CS person. If the article is not readily consumable for a CS person why is it on a website called "Hacker News"? Seems like a bad submission if you ask me... Like many before you, you appear to assume Hacker equates to the C in CS.
- laythea 8y ago
  Like the many that will, after me, assume Hacker to mean the C in CS. Technically, you are correct, and I agree. But I must point out, that actually, you are wrong - the general use of the word belongs to computers.
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  - laken 8y ago
    The word hacker isn't about computers. https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
    - laythea 8y ago
      Most people would have no idea about Richard Stallman, and I maintain that due to popular media the general public associate the word with computer technology.
      - Ascendency 8y ago
        This is Hacker News, not the general public. If we don’t know who Richard Stallman or what a hacker is, who should?
lemonberry 8y ago
In the Guidelines link to at the bottom of this page under 'What to Submit': On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- laythea 8y ago
  I don't mean the topic is off-topic. I was talking about the level of technical detail.
  - skj 8y ago
    For a word in common parlance, if it's not how the general population understands the word, then it's not the word's meaning.
dekhn 8y ago
I'm a biohacker (by training) but a computer hacker by vocation. It's clear the HN community has an abiding passion in the deep relationship between information and computation systems. I just want to make sure the less experienced readers don't immediately jump to making naive conclusions by making weak analogies between computers and biology.
jlg23 8y ago
Because a lot of "CS persons", those who are called hackers[1], enjoy figuring things out. I too cannot ~"readily consume" it, but I now have a few more tabs open in my browser from which I will learn a lot. [1] in the original meaning of the word

I am a CS person. If the article is not readily consumable for a CS person why is it on a website called "Hacker News"? Seems like a bad submission if you ask me...

Jedd 8y ago

> I am a CS person. If the article is not readily consumable for a CS person why is it on a website called "Hacker News"? Seems like a bad submission if you ask me... Like many before you, you appear to assume Hacker equates to the C in CS.

laythea 8y ago
Like the many that will, after me, assume Hacker to mean the C in CS. Technically, you are correct, and I agree. But I must point out, that actually, you are wrong - the general use of the word belongs to computers.
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- laken 8y ago
  The word hacker isn't about computers. https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
  - laythea 8y ago
    Most people would have no idea about Richard Stallman, and I maintain that due to popular media the general public associate the word with computer technology.
    - Ascendency 8y ago
      This is Hacker News, not the general public. If we don’t know who Richard Stallman or what a hacker is, who should?

lemonberry 8y ago

In the Guidelines link to at the bottom of this page under 'What to Submit': On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

laythea 8y ago
I don't mean the topic is off-topic. I was talking about the level of technical detail.
- skj 8y ago
  For a word in common parlance, if it's not how the general population understands the word, then it's not the word's meaning.

dekhn 8y ago

I'm a biohacker (by training) but a computer hacker by vocation. It's clear the HN community has an abiding passion in the deep relationship between information and computation systems. I just want to make sure the less experienced readers don't immediately jump to making naive conclusions by making weak analogies between computers and biology.

jlg23 8y ago

Because a lot of "CS persons", those who are called hackers[1], enjoy figuring things out. I too cannot ~"readily consume" it, but I now have a few more tabs open in my browser from which I will learn a lot. [1] in the original meaning of the word