> Or maybe the U.S. usage was always out of sync with the Down Under usage. I suspect this is the case. I'm in the U.S., and I recall using "hack" in pretty mu

> Or maybe the U.S. usage was always out of sync with the Down Under usage. I suspect this is the case. I'm in the U.S., and I recall using "hack" in pretty much the HN sense as early as the mid-1980s.