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Calling All Hackers
- jchor 2y agoThis is such a beautifully written story with it's own kind of elegance. Love it!
- mrinfinitiesx 2y agoConway's law
- Terr_ 2y agoGonna need more context for what part you're replying to.
- defrost 2y agoCalling All Hackers | 2 points 15 hours ago | Phrack 71 | 194 points 1 day ago | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41296949 Calling All Hackers | 7 points 1 day ago | Phrack Issue #71 | 12 points 1 day ago |
- nuancebydefault 2y agoWhat do you mean?
- defrost 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=phrack.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=phrack.org
- rfl890 2y agoIt's worse formatted than dang's stuff, but ya tried
- defrost 2y agoGiven the opportunity to offer up a better template ya copped out with a snide comment and didn't even try. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- rfl890 2y agoI was on mobile and didn't want to type out all that. An example (dang usually posts comments like this on popular submissions): Related: Post title - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=XXXXXXXXX https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=XXXXXXXXX (date) | XX comments Different title - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=XXXXXXXXX https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=XXXXXXXXX (date) | XX comments in order by date. Such a comment provides useful information on previous discussions (date posted, amount of comments). Your comment seemed like it was simply calling out the fact that this link was reposted a few times, which is unhelpful. Apologies for being snide in my original comment.
- kazcaptain 2y agoi like this take a lot, what I get is hacker = infinitely curious individual
- sureglymop 2y agoThat's always been my interpretation of it! I would use the term "insatiably curious" to describe it to people.
- yetihehe 2y agoJust "infinitely curious individual" is a bookworm. Hacker would also like to tinker with the rules underlying the systems to see how things might break. So bookworm + tinkering + wants to understand complex systems (hackers call it "to grok"). Systems - not only computer systems, also biological, physical and any kind of complex assemblages of rules.
- _xiaz 2y agoI personally prefer "infinitely creative individual", with the non-artsy definition of creative: to create something
- yetihehe 2y agoStill not specific enough and doesn't evoke hackers. I consider myself a hacker but I don't consider myself "infinitely" creative, just creative in technical areas. So maybe technically creative individual? But those are more like Makers.
- squigz 2y agoNo matter how you define "hacker", "argues about the definition of 'hacker'" certainly should be included :)
- bratwurst3000 2y agothats a good take . i would add “ a person that wants to understand how thinks work to manipulate them”
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- default-kramer 2y ago> The market is incentivized to deliver a product that meets the minimum bar to meet that checkbox, while being useless. I invite you to think of your favorite middleware or EDR vendors here. For passionate security founders considering raising venture, remember that this is what your "success" is being benchmarked against. > Do not swallow blackpills. It's easy to get really cynical and think things are doomed > Creating leverage for yourself. Hackers should not think of themselves as "oh I am this little guy fighting Big Corporation" or whatever. This is low agency behavior. Instead become the corporation and RUN IT THE WAY YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE RUN. Should I do it? Does this mean me? Obviously not, because I don't know shit about EDR. But obviously neither does Crowdstrike. I mean really, I couldn't possibly do any worse... right? Right? On the internet, it's easy to feel outclassed. But IRL, a large majority of people suck at their job. So in theory this should work. In practice, I guess I'm just blackpilled. For much less effort I can get paid 6 figures for 2 hours of work per week. [Also, I realize that winning at business is more difficult than I'm implying. But if my former bosses, who didn't do much other than yell at people and also drugs, could build a 25M/year business then you probably can too.]
- ganzuul 2y agoIf your debt grows faster than your income you are blackpilled. If you run a derivatives market in your head and nothing you imagine can be boostrapped, you are blackpilled. Crypto gets a lot of shit but social contracts made analyzable as smart contracts is promising for ethical financial markets. e.g. you could detect a debt spiral as a flow/loop/void structure with renormalization groups and persistent homology. When you can spot entities trying to create wage slaves from 100 miles away you can focus your energy on being creative.
- benreesman 2y agoI’ll cut the author some slack because the alternative is worse: knowing things is better than an active posture of ignorance. But let’s take it easy on the gatekeeping that any of that is even a little complicated. Quantum chromodynamics is complicated: price-time precedence in financial markets is flash cards.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoFlash cards are not understanding, and it doesn't help that few if anyone explains finance without a lot of handwaving and magical thinking.
- tux3 2y agoI don't think the author is gatekeeping here. The way I read your comment, you seem to be gatekeeping what is complicated enough 'Tis not a contest. Curiosity is its own reward.
- sanderjd 2y agoThe existence of more complicated things does not mean that other things are not also complicated. Financial markets that are open to the participation of billions of people, amalgamating all the behavior of all those participants, are complicated. Perhaps not nearly as complicated as quantum chromodynamics, I dunno, but complicated nonetheless.
- Aleksdev 2y agoThis whole thing comes off as very “edgy”. We just like to tinker with things. It’s really not that deep for most of us.
- dimator 2y agophrack has always had this kind of article. i'm sure if you grep for "A hacker is" or "the hacker ethos" you'll get a hit for every phrack issue going back to the 80s.
- larodi 2y agoOnly thing I fail to understand is why a hacker needs to know where to buy estrogen… I can more easily take the idea of hacker knowing how to cook Molotov cocktails.
- TZubiri 2y agoThey may be hacking their own body to a binary that's different from their source code
- Retr0id 2y agowhy not both?
- Jaccca 2y agoThat part is definitely not aimed at every reader, but it is appropriately used to highlight how some might circumvent the lengthy legal processes involved in getting estrogen. Moreover, it points to the possible need for them to compound it themselves which in turn makes them a hacker.
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- bheadmaster 2y agoTrans folks may in general possess qualities that make them better hackers, but they certainly aren't the only ones, so I wouldn't call hacker culture inherently trans. That would imply that non-trans people are somehow outsiders, which is contrary to the hacker philosophy, which respects merit and skill, regardless of the person's identity.
- matrix87 2y agoI'm saying this on the wrong forum... all this shit I hear about working in early stage startups and I'm honestly surprised why anyone would bother (unless they're a founder)
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- Handprint4469 2y agoI don't get the point of this comment. Was it ChatGPT-generated?
- amne 2y agoshould've been a post. you're right. who knows? maybe it could've topped HN .. or should I say RN (runnersnews?)
- willguest 2y ago> "... how the world works" This is the most generic trap of all. Get good at something and then extrapolate to claim that you know how everything works. I suggest that, given the insane proliferation of valueless derivatives and ejection of human values from these systems, a more suitable conclusion might be that this is how the world dies.
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- klntsky 2y agoI don't think the author is guilty of that.
- swiftcoder 2y agoAn effective hacker has to be competent at social engineering as well as having a very deep understanding of software/hardware. By the time you have accrued detailed experience of how both these technical systems and social systems work, you may be well on your way to understanding how the world works (in abstract, at any rate)?
- willguest 2y agoI think the term 'social engineering' gets right to the point. We aren't machines but we have found very effective way of hacking our rewards systems so that we can manufacture demand, modify behaviour etc. The author describes the phenomenon, but doesn't seem to see the broader picture. This is where a meta-systematic, or paradigmatic (if you're allergic to the word 'meta') perspective is needed, which transcends both social and technical systems, but appreciated how they fit into a larger scheme. Through this lens the world is decidedly pluralistic and cannot be condensed to 'it's like X, we gotta do Y'. That can work for a personal strategy, and the author is kind enough to make some suggestions, but it's intellectual overreach to try and label the world
- lo_zamoyski 2y ago> I think the term 'social engineering' gets right to the point. "Social engineering" is just dystopian newspeak for "deception, manipulation, lying, and bullshitting to get what you want". If honest language were used, maybe it wouldn't look so sexy. Anything else that avoids immoral means is just a matter of rhetorical skill and ability to negotiate.
- _xiaz 2y ago> 3 - How Money Works Bold
- sixthDot 2y agoI feel miserable as I only check 4 or 5 criterions over 8000.
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y agoIf I’ve ever seen an article that needs a tldr, this is it. Just because we’re both hackers, doesn’t mean you can call on me. I don’t care about all your handles or what you think hacking should be, get to the point and stop wasting my time.
- brap 2y agoFor real. A hacker knows this, a hacker knows that. Does a hacker know how to get to the fucking point?
- wormlord 2y agoI appreciate what it is trying to say, it's pretty basic knowledge for anyone that has broken out of "the market is God" mentality though through reading about the basics of finance. I think the writing style is influenced by WallStreetBets infodumps, which are influenced by Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, and kinda remind me of Hunter S. Thompson a little bit. Personally I find it annoying but I understand the culture that this kind of writing is emerging from.
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y agoI don’t care what influenced it, I might be more interested if I know the content is actually of interest but it presumably took several paragraphs to get there. I didn’t know it was about marketing, because I stopped reading. A hacker should know how to captivate their audience, particularly when talking about marketing.
- whateveracct 2y agoThis article took less than 10m for me to read. That is really not much time.
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y agoSure, but if you spend 10m to read an article every time someone gave you an article, when you’re not even sure if you’re interested, then you’re wasting your life.
- lifeisstillgood 2y agoThis did not seem as bad as it’s played in the comments - it’s somewhat akin to pg’s breakout essay (pg is much much easier to read) but it’s the same thing - set up a company, make the world better. I like the attitude (even if the text formatting could be improved but house style is house style)
- coldpie 2y agoYeah I think everyone got hung up on the kind of cringy first section. Past the "what is a hacker" junk, it's quite a good article.
- sillyfluke 2y ago>"what is a hacker" junk I didn't find the part about having a curiosity about computers cringe frankly.
- mehulashah 2y ago> “The point is, all of this made me feel very small and powerless after I realized the sheer size of the problems I was staring at. Nowadays, to me it's about creating good jobs for my friends, helping our customers, and taking care of the community. Importantly, I realized that this is still making a bigger positive impact than what I could have done alone just as an individual hacker or engineer.” I couldn’t have said it better. This is why I’m an entrepreneur and still take the pains to do it.
- fsndz 2y agoAbsolutely great read. My thesis is you have to understand how the world works and one aspect of it is quickly identifying mainstream lies: https://medium.com/thoughts-on-machine-learning/the-secret-of-highly-successful-entrepreneurs-and-vcs-36775ce8e220 https://medium.com/thoughts-on-machine-learning/the-secret-o...
- RaVeN_ShP 2y agoDo group buys for IDA Pro even still exist?
- kurisufag 2y agoI thought the move was just using a cracked version until you make it and can afford a real license to flex.
- kachapopopow 2y agoIDA has gone full corporations since 8.0, but before that china always used to leak the latest version. Ironically this time IDA 9.0 was leaked by... hexrays themselves, including lumina, hexvault, etc. Pretty sure it was meant to be a demo page in defcon, but someone leaked the URL. Binary Ninja is a solid competitor if you don't mind cleaning up the binaries before hand to clear up opaque jumps or have 256GB of ram.
- SebFender 2y agoLooking at the article I was expecting some dude popping out of nowhere on a skateboard.
- set5think 2y agoHahah I just realized the reference to the movie! Bravo.
- boomskats 2y agoEntertaining read. To me it feels like a modern version of The Mentor's original manifesto, but having resigned itself to middle age. My inner 12 year old wants to frame this one too.
- lifeisstillgood 2y agoFYI: https://davidgcohen.com/2011/08/28/the-mentor-manifesto/ https://davidgcohen.com/2011/08/28/the-mentor-manifesto/
- Handprint4469 2y agolol no, that's a sterile self-help blogpost written by some VC. This is The Mentor's original manifesto: https://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html https://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html
- lifeisstillgood 2y agoAha. Yes, well, The one I found I vaguely read and thought it might possibly help at work. The one you referenced I pushed I front of my teenager daughters nose and said “read this it’s important it’s about you” Thank you
- AYBABTME 2y agoI thought this would be bad. The start with security stuff isn't my vibe. But then I kept reading it and the storytelling kept me. The econ stuff, parallels, etc. It ended up capturing perfectly a bunch of ideas I've been having for a few months now. ZIRP was toxic. It made us bad and lazy. Identifying the phenomenons and explaining their mechanisms has been a useful exercise. I think this post will stay in my brain for a long while. I'm at this point in life and this resonates a lot. I want to build useful stuff with intrinsic value and I'm sick of the BS that exulted in the last decade. In my own way I'm trying to start ventures, so it's a good motivating call. Slow start but damn solid article.
- set5think 2y agoagreed, wholeheartedly.
- coldpie 2y ago> ZIRP was toxic. It made us bad and lazy. Yes. It makes me really nervous to see people celebrating the fed talking about lowering rates. Maybe rates should be lowered a bit, sure, I don't know. But please, please don't ever let us go back to zero-interest. As a person who works with technology, that era was so incredibly depressing. So much waste. I'm on the verge of leaving the tech industry because of what happened over the past 10 years. City bus drivers don't have to share an industry with SBF and Juicero and Elon Musk, you know?
- dgb23 2y agoI'm only starting to learn about these things. From the data I've seen and read it seems like low interest rates are (politically) alluring, because of short term metrics, but will bite back via inflation and bubbles bursting very consistently. Is there any wisdom and data that challenges or expands on this that a layman can understand?
- antishatter 2y agohttps://www.amazon.com/Price-Time-Real-Story-Interest/dp/0802160069 https://www.amazon.com/Price-Time-Real-Story-Interest/dp/080...
- set5think 2y agoThank you for finding a great way to say what I have been trying to say all my life. I will keep this with me for the rest of my life -Hassan
- shahzaibmushtaq 2y agoThe author is telling us that "Hackers" are people who know enough ins and outs about the things they interact with on a daily basis. > "My point is, it is not just about computers. It's about understanding how the world works. The world is made up of people. As much as machines keep society running, those machines are programmed by people--people with managers, spouses, and children; with wants, needs, and dreams. And it is about using that knowledge to bring about the change you want to see. That is what being a hacker is all about." I usually read/listen to people's experiences and whether or not their stories truly make sense depends on how they present them to the world.
- shahzaibmushtaq 2y agoAs I said above "for stories to make sense, you must be a good storyteller", and this author is definitely one of them. A must read for everyone.
- Elfener 2y ago"It's about knowing what happens when you type "google.com" and press Enter" is possibly the best short explanation of hacker culture ever.
- diggan 2y agoIt literally goes on to say "But being a hacker is so much more than these things." after that, so it's not just about things like those :)
- sanderjd 2y agoYep, I still remember the feeling when I first developed at least some mental model for all the steps along the way from "enter" to seeing the results, and realized that it was even more shockingly complex than I imagined it to be when it was just magic, and that despite that complexity, it all actually works many billions of times every moment of every day. Then what happened is that pretty much every year (maybe closer to every day) since then I have learned about some piece of the puzzle where my mental model was actually nowhere near the truth, and that each individual puzzle piece is even more complex than I thought! Truly wild stuff.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoWe used to know what would happen. Now with AI, it might recommend putting glue on pizza or making bioweapons for a potluck.
- jll29 2y agoWeb Page Blocked! You have tried to access a web page which belongs to a category that is blocked. :-(
- John23832 2y agoThat seems like a problem on your end.
- diggan 2y agoSounds like someone (your parents? the company you work at? your school?) have installed a firewall of some sorts.
- ffhhj 2y agoAha, caught browsing in the job. Head to HR for your daily beating.
- set5think 2y agoHahah
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- cyberes 2y agoReally pointless article
- set5think 2y agoReally pointless comment :P
- goodpoint 2y ago> Hackers should not think of themselves as "oh I am this little guy fighting Big Corporation" or whatever. [...] Instead become the corporation Hacker culture is inherently antiauthoritarian. Wanting to become the big corporation is something you would expect only from "hacker" "news".
- udev4096 2y agoGood to see phrack finally supporting HTTPS.
- throw_pm23 2y agoSeriously, who cares, it is an essay in a text file.
- brunoqc 2y agobecause your ISP doesn't need to know what your read?
- saagarjha 2y agoI have bad news to share about how DNS works
- brunoqc 2y agoIt seems a bit presumptive to assume I’m unfamiliar with how DNS works. While it’s true that DNS traffic to your ISP is generally readable, using HTTPS still offers significant privacy benefits. A single domain, like twitter.com, can transmit a vast amount of data. Additionally, with the ease of obtaining a free SSL certificate these days, neglecting to implement one could be considered careless.
- saagarjha 2y agoI’m going to reply to both you and your sibling comment because they’re basically the same from the perspective of what I wanted to say: just because you know some stuff about DNS isn’t actually enough, because there’s a wider context that you’re missing. Most importantly, without a VPN the traffic you send will often go to an IP that is controlled by a single entity, so your ISP is going to route packets from you to [Phrack IP]. Of course the content of those packets is going to be encrypted, but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that everyone is reading Phrack 71 that just came out. So that’s basically enough to figure out everything already. But to bring it back to DNS even then it’s riddled with issues as you’re aware of: it’s complete unencrypted by default, so that just gives you the domain directly. Often you’re going to be sending that traffic to your ISP directly but even if you’ve set things up to use a different server you still haven’t solved the problem of people being able to know what you’re doing.
- 78987978k87 2y agoI come from the later phone phreak era of the 90's and late 2000's. The phraase "hack the planet" from the movie hackers I love. You can control anything once you understand its behavior. 5 minutes is all you need to cause a little chaos. life is all about systems. once you understand how to break down systems, you can hack all of them. it does not matter what your knowledge or skill level is on a particular system as long as you can break it all down to its fundamental parts and understand its behavior. most things you only need to observe before understanding. I agree with others though, the article comes across as a little cocky. its also fine to be a hacker who only focuses on one particular area. it does not make you less of a hacker. you only need to understand systems.
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- set5think 2y agoCool.
- kayo_20211030 2y agoI agree with the premise and conclusions, but what struck me, particularly, about this was how well it was written. Thanks to the author for a super piece.
- denvaar 2y ago"It's about knowing more about the web than most, but still choosing to make your site as mobile-unfriendly as possible." /s EDIT: I actually love that it's text based, even to the point of creating sigma notation out of plain text.
- 0xbadcafebee 2y agoSo a young hacker turned tech bro learned about the financial markets and told himself he was still a hacker working in tech and financial markets. But I see nothing of hacking here. I see pontificating about an "ethos" and how great hackers are, and making it seem like financial markets, bitcoin and startups is some mysterious unknown to "hack". Really it's just a job. Hey, you wanna nerd out on this stuff, that's great. But just doing a job in financial markets or silicon valley doesn't make you a hacker, or what you do hacking.
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- samwcurry 2y agoThey are saying the exact opposite! The whole essay is about how financial markets are not some "mysterious unknown" and are instead predictable systems that are masked in a layer of bullshit that you can lean into and take advantage of. As a non-finance person, understanding "why" obviously terrible ideas get investment helps me understand how the world works. If we replaced the humans in the financial system with APIs, there would be inputs (pitch deck, founder persona, whatever) that can cleverly lead to an intended solution (raising capital, starting a company) in the same way that I could find a vulnerability on RuneScape or Eve Online, which I'm sure satisfies the traditional "hacker" definition. It's obviously not that cut-and-dry, but approaching the world in the "hacker mindset" is about observing and manipulating these systems.
- 0xbadcafebee 2y ago> The whole essay is about how financial markets are not some "mysterious unknown" and are instead predictable systems that are masked in a layer of bullshit that you can lean into and take advantage of. If someone goes out of their way to tell you about a thing in detail, emphasizing how it's not a mysterious unknown, the conceit is that they think that you thought it was a mysterious unknown, and they are removing the blinders from your poor ignorant eyes. > As a non-finance person, understanding "why" obviously terrible ideas get investment helps me understand how the world works. > If we replaced the humans in the financial system with APIs, there would be inputs (pitch deck, founder persona, whatever) that can cleverly lead to an intended solution (raising capital, starting a company) in the same way that I could find a vulnerability on RuneScape or Eve Online I'm sorry, but you really don't understand how the world works. > approaching the world in the "hacker mindset" is about observing and manipulating these systems The hacker mindset is curiosity and discovery, not observing and manipulating. It's one thing to study a thing; it's another to become it.
- kelsey98765431 2y agogz nspky ggwp
- pcdoodle 2y agoI really enjoyed reading that. Thank you.
- iwontberude 2y ago> Knowing that you're not worth burning a 0day on This has been a pretty tried and true way for me to figure out who is schizophrenic and who is important.
- afpx 2y agoIf your company is successful, won’t the VCs just spin up some clones?
- fredgrott 2y agoGood news....you know that worry about zero interest? TARP was closed in fall of 2023 as all assets were sold off, see https://home.treasury.gov/data/troubled-asset-relief-program https://home.treasury.gov/data/troubled-asset-relief-program That means assuming we do not screw up again, no more zero or negative interest situations.
- debo_ 2y ago> A hacker is someone who understands how the world works. It's about knowing what happens when you type "google.com" and press Enter. It's about knowing how your computer turns on, about memory training, A20, all of that. It's about modern processors, their caches, and their side channels. It's about DSi bootloaders and how the right electromagnetic faults can be used to jailbreak them. And it's about how Spotify and Widevine and AES and SGX work so you can free your music from the shackles of DRM. This is a very... interesting definition of "the world."
- monitron 2y agoI humbly suggest that you read beyond the first few paragraphs. The author goes on to significantly expand the definition.
- debo_ 2y agoI did read the whole article, and I liked it. As an intro, it was a bit discombobulating to see this as the first paragraph.
- lo_zamoyski 2y agoTo know how the "world works", to know the causes of things, either includes hackers, or is identical with being a hacker. Is Aristotle a hacker? Human beings desire, by nature, to know. If you live in a technological society, it is important to understand the thicket of technology we find ourselves in, and how to navigate it. That's just prudence, and just a particular determination of the truth, that it was always good to understand oneself and one's predicament. I guess you can call that a hacker, or count hackers among such people. But then, if the latter, you must offer a distinguishing characteristic that distinguishes hackers among others in this genus. And what are the author's presuppositions?
- stong1 2y agoThis is my article. Thank you for your kind words, I'm glad you all enjoyed it! I was very surprised to wake up this morning to see it on HN, haha.
- MetaWhirledPeas 2y ago> Keep it private and closely held Yep. I know this is probably a bit revisionist (old-timey inventors wanted to get rich quick too) but it feels like companies used to more often be geared toward longevity, not ascendance, and I don't see how they could achieve longevity while constantly trying to make shareholders rich. Longevity really should be up there on the list of goals, with security and prosperity for all those involved. I suppose a meat grinder growfast company could invent world-improving products that justify employee churn and abuse, but those would be unicorns with diamond encrusted horns. What is the point of any of our actions if they don't benefit people?
- tonyarkles 2y agoThe story of GE under Jack Welch and his underlings that spread out from there is horrifying. Boeing got caught up in it with the MD reverse acquisition. There was an audiobook I listened to recently that covered a bunch of this but I can't for the life of me find the title right now.
- set5think 2y agoGreat job Luna!
- spirobelv2 2y agocan you give a tldr? whats the point? how are we going to get rich? what is your answer?
- saagarjha 2y agoThe answer is solely seeking to get rich isn’t the hacker spirit.
- biofox 2y agoAs a ex-hacker who left the scene to wear a suit and become a "grown-up", this is refreshing and much more palatable vision of the community that I wish I had seen more of when I was younger: `` Hackers should not think of themselves as "oh I am this little guy fighting Big Corporation" or whatever. This is low agency behavior. Instead become the corporation and RUN IT THE WAY YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE RUN." '' One question though, to the suggestion that hackers should focus on raising capital in a way that gives them breathing room... how the hell am I supposed to do that?
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoHa my friend. I asked this exact question to myself. I tried going down the VC route but realized it's all a big scam and the numbers don't add up if you are genuinely trying to build something better. What I ended up doing is stacking cash at large tech companies and then using that to quit and I finally ended up with a large cash cow business with $4 million profits (pre tax). With hacking, you can get double digit and even triple digit millionaire in about 10 years. Trick is to be really earnest, build at the frontier of tech, market efficiently and treat it like a math problem. You are trying to optimize for enterprise value.
- biofox 2y agoThat is an impressive achievement. Kudos, my friend! There is still hope for me then? :)
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoI really think so. But man I went through the dark night of the soul to get here. It's not easy and when you see some of the most well known VCs such as a16z selling their souls for a seat at the table, it really gets to you and you have to insulate yourself to break through and break free.
- shepherdjerred 2y agoAs someone who doesn't have a formal understanding of finances/economics, I really enjoyed the first half of this post. Are there any good resources to understand the world's financial systems as a layman? I'm not looking to be an expert.
- 3np 2y agoLooking up new terms on investopedia and going down rabbit holes from there is not a bad start, I think.
- adhambadr 2y agoLoved this. Thank you for putting it together, I could relate to it on a level you couldn’t possibly imagine.
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- TacticalCoder 2y agoThat article is worth reading. If you don't have the time, at least take a look at the "liquidity cycle" ASCII art: it is wonderful!
- winterrx 2y ago> You can understand computers and science and math as much as you want, but you will not be able to fix the bigger issues by yourself. The systems that run the world are much bigger than what we can break on our laptops and lab benches. This.
- vicken 2y agoThis isn't just a call to all hackers...this is a call to all entrepreneurs. It really highlights the artificial success of many companies today.
- sudd11 2y agoGreat narration! Thanks for the article. Loved this line: "Nowadays, to me it's about creating good jobs for my friends, helping our customers, and taking care of the community". Good luck!
- zenetix 2y agoI appreciate the spirit of this article - to use knowledge to bring about the change you want to see. However, while my friends are being helped by my knowledge, someone else is trying to help their friends. And I imagine this scenario has played out many times in modern society. In this system, someone has to lose for someone to win. Felt like a strong reminder that capitalism subsumes all critique into itself.
- ThatUnknownDude 2y agoLmao I read the title as Optimus Prime as he says "Calling all autobots"
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- neycoda 2y agoThe author may know how the world works but they don't know how to make an easily-readable webpage.