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When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles. Edit: to th
by stackghost 7mo ago
When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles.
Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of course it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity.
Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh.
- akoboldfrying 7mo ago[flagged]
- staplers 7mo agoMeta, openai, google have a bridge to sell you
- redrove 7mo agoThat’s long gone, especially around here. YC is YC. It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website.
- stackghost 7mo ago>It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website. It is sad. There are definitely some talented people here but the pervasive corporate bootlicking is pretty hard to take, at times. Certain usenet newsgroups had a similar vibe, once upon a time, but usenet couldn't solve the spam problem.
- vovavili 7mo agoYcombinator is far from your average venture capital rent-seeking company. I am surprised that a person who thinks this way without added nuance would spent time on this website.
- dudefeliciano 7mo agoVC "hackers" still think that information is free and fuck corporations, just as long as it's not "their" information or "their" corporation