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0 pointstkgally4y ago0 comments

For those reasons, I personally would not object if YC decided to change the name of Hacker News to something else. The current name seems misleading, at least to me.

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ddingus4y ago

That would be a shame really.

sigmaprimus4y ago

Yes, the whole idea sounds like a progressive attack by the word police looking for another target to cancel. A not so long time ago there were these thick stacks of paper bound in twine, glue and leather called dictionaries that contained words and their understood meanings and it made it far more difficult to change a words meaning, it seems as with everything in this modern world the time for a meaning to be changed has accelerated to the point that ridiculous definitions can be twisted and imposed upon any word now.

Personally I prefer the darker meaning of hacker than the 2000s "G rated" version of hacker but that's probably because of my age.

To all the hackers, crackers and phreaks still out there...all your bases are belong to us, we are legion, we do not forget, expect us.

AndrewDucker4y ago

What's particularly funny here is that the "has fun making computers do things" definition of hacker predates the "breaking into things" definition. What you're referring to was called a "cracker"until the 90s.

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ddingus4y ago

You know if I were you, I would take the labeling and blaming out of this, and just recognize that there is a sort of attack going on.

Many of us you came up during a far less authoritarian, and somewhat simpler time, definitely feel it.

And I think that is a discussion worth having, but I don't think it's one that we should further politicize.

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ddingus4y ago

That would be a shame really.

sigmaprimus4y ago

Personally I prefer the darker meaning of hacker than the 2000s "G rated" version of hacker but that's probably because of my age.

To all the hackers, crackers and phreaks still out there...all your bases are belong to us, we are legion, we do not forget, expect us.

AndrewDucker4y ago

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ddingus4y ago

You know if I were you, I would take the labeling and blaming out of this, and just recognize that there is a sort of attack going on.

Many of us you came up during a far less authoritarian, and somewhat simpler time, definitely feel it.

And I think that is a discussion worth having, but I don't think it's one that we should further politicize.

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