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IIRC this website was born of a novel use of the term 'hacking' in the startup space- hacking business growth. Here, hacking is a more well established term- h
by zdragnar 4y ago
IIRC this website was born of a novel use of the term 'hacking' in the startup space- hacking business growth.
Here, hacking is a more well established term- hacking networking hardware is something I suspect most people would associate with black-hat type hacking.
- gpm 4y agoAs I understand the website was born out of MITs use of the term "hacking" to mean... well... what the website means by it. Wikipedia claims the term was widespread by the 60s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Ins...
- rfrey 4y agoI don't think so. Recall pg wrote "Hackers and Painters" before founding ycombinator and was/is a pretty well known Lisp hacker. I'd be surprised if he meant business hacking when he named this site.
- tlb 4y agoNo, Hacker News was named after the people who enjoy doing clever things with computers. At the time, using "hacker" to mean a black-hat was popular in the press, but not among actual hackers. And "growth hacking" was a metaphor for doing clever things to get growth, but not the primary association with "hacker".
- zdragnar 4y agoI probably should have specified that it was a novel usage within the startup space, not that that was where the term originated.