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But that isn't what "Hacker" means. Take it from pg, who named the site, 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199 https://news.ycombinator.com
by johnfn 9mo ago
But that isn't what "Hacker" means. Take it from pg, who named the site, 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199
> In the sense of the word that means people who write code, not people who break into things
- russelg 9mo agoSure, but in this case they definitely are a hacker still since they did write code to achieve this.
- johnfn 9mo agoThe comment I am responding to says that people should be amenable to lockpicking because it’s “hacker” news. But he’s using the wrong meaning of hacker. So the argument doesn’t hold.