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The usual response from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: > On-Topic: Anything that good hacke
by JadeNB 3y ago
The usual response from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I don't qualify as a good hacker, but I definitely find it interesting, and it could be that good hackers do, too.
- GuB-42 3y ago> I don't qualify as a good hacker yet Getting interested is how people become good hackers.
- coolThingsFirst 3y ago[flagged]
- JadeNB 3y ago> Is this symbol also fascinating to you ! How about this one . or this one ? Yes, they've got interesting histories, and, for example, Shady characters (https://wwnorton.com/books/shady-characters/ https://wwnorton.com/books/shady-characters/) has some fascinating things to say about them.
- coolThingsFirst 3y ago[flagged]
- JadeNB 3y ago> They don't, if we went ahead and were mesmerised by random symbols we couldn't get good at anything because becoming good means you have to filter out the BS from the signal. As I say, I'm not a good hacker, but I am a mathematician, and the skillsets are not disjoint. It seems to me not inconceivable that some good hackers become so precisely because of their ability to be mesmerised by things other people find boring or trivial, not in spite of it.