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Hacker News is for anything of interest to hackers, not just computers. The independence and individualism that home gardening affords is right in line with hac
by tomkinstinch 15y ago
Hacker News is for anything of interest to hackers, not just computers. The independence and individualism that home gardening affords is right in line with hacker ethos. This story of the epistomological challenges surrounding poppy cultivation could be seen as analogous to the perceptions toward possession of a password-cracking program. What one could use to audit security or for intellectual exercise could also be used with malicious intent.
The role of authority in these matters is of interest to many hackers.
- davidw 15y agoThis is a game called "7 degrees of hacker news" where you try and "connect the dots". For instance, "This story of the epistomological challenges surrounding poppy cultivation could be seen as analogous to the perceptions toward possession of a password-cracking program." is certainly one of the more creative ones I've read here. When you start being that broad though, you really stop being able to exclude anything. Most of us are interested in a great variety of things, and, being intelligent, well read people, have opinions - sometimes strong ones - on things like politics too. Those topics, however, are not really hacker news.
- tomkinstinch 15y agoFair enough. For me at least, it was a nice and well-written diversion from coding.