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Well, THN is actually about hacking. So if the name is confusing on anyones part, I would more likely be HN.
by FrankDixon 8y ago
Well, THN is actually about hacking. So if the name is confusing on anyones part, I would more likely be HN.
- chongli 8y agoHacker News is about hacking too, in the original sense of the word. It's a gathering place for people to indulge in curiosity with fellow curious people.
- DonHopkins 8y agoAs much as we discuss Uber and self driving cars and the gig econony, it's also about hacking in the sense of driving taxis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation#In_working-class_neighborhoods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation#In_w... https://smallbusiness.co.uk/hack-cabs-organic-car-service-2539537/ https://smallbusiness.co.uk/hack-cabs-organic-car-service-25...
- madrafi 8y agoHackernews is more of an echo chamber than a gathering of curious and etcetera people.
- TomMarius 8y agoDefine hacking
- LaGrange 8y agoDoing a job incompetently.
- user5994461 8y agoHacking: cut with rough or heavy blows. "I watched them hack the branches" First definition given by google. That was easy.
- zrobotics 8y agoAh yes, just let me get out my 'debugging' machete. After all, I keep a widlarizer on my bench for troubleshooting problematic circuits. "How do you WIDLARIZE something? You take it over to the anvil part of the vice, and you beat on it with a hammer, until it is all crunched down to tiny little pieces, so small that you don’t even have to sweep it off the floor" >>https://hackaday.com/2014/04/08/heroes-of-hardware-revolution-bob-widlar/ https://hackaday.com/2014/04/08/heroes-of-hardware-revolutio...
- TomMarius 8y agoSo both sites are not about hacking, no need to talk about meaning then.