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Umm... "hackers"? I know the term has fallen into disrepute but this all seems a bit trivial.

• simonw 15y ago
  15 lines of JavaScript that translates tweets from Russians, built in a newsroom setting to help cover a bombing in Moscow, is a cool hack. Hacks don't have to be technically complex, they should be smart solutions to problems.
  • mikearagua 15y ago
    I think of a hack as a non-obvious solution to a difficult technical problem. I'm not saying they didn't do a good job, this is just more what I would consider standard.
• mquander 15y ago
  The flag button, not the comment box, is the appropriate way to express that sentiment.
• dandrinkard 15y ago
  No argument from me, I think the focus was off a bit. This 'hack' was just a simple extension to a plugin I'd already written for parsing jsonp feeds to html. I consider the process more interesting than a specific piece of technology.