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I think there is some merit to this observation. The hacker definition have been stretched more and more, while the posts here still fall within the sites defin
by Systemic33 13y ago
I think there is some merit to this observation.
The hacker definition have been stretched more and more, while the posts here still fall within the sites definition of news, there seems to have been a shift to a higher focus on hacking your startup X's round A|B|C|... and less about hacking the technology.
tl;dr: I think there have been a shift from hacking the technology to hacking the finance.
- fauigerzigerk 13y agoI'm not sure this is really a shift. This site was founded by a seed funding organization, so it shouldn't be a surprise to find lots of funding related stories here. It has always been like this as far as I can remember.
- icebraining 13y agoThe site was originally called Startup News. Hell, see the page from back then: https://web.archive.org/web/20070226001637/http://news.ycombinator.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070226001637/http://news.ycomb... MySpace, Facebook, Delicious, Yahoo, TechStars, Y Combinator, if anything they were even more than now.
- NAFV_P 13y ago> I think there have been a shift from hacking the technology to hacking the finance. I'd rather have finance hacking (I was thinking bitcoin) than yet another article on the NSA.