Cooking perfect eggs by hacking a crock pot to a controlled temp bath is hacking. Dragging a block of ice around with money it to draw abundant attention is ha

Cooking perfect eggs by hacking a crock pot to a controlled temp bath is hacking. Dragging a block of ice around with money it to draw abundant attention is hacking. Presumably there are some awesome sewing techniques I am unaware of that I would have no problem calling hacking. More generally hacking is using a fundamental understanding of the underlying processes involved in a system to manipulate the system into doing things it wasn't designed to do.