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I'm up-flagging the up-flag idea.
It's fun to think of what a good name for it might be. The word "exalt" occurred to me at one point.
And to me this is the essence of hacking and hacker culture, not “how do I create MVP from my idea and become an entrepreneur” or “this and that in company XYZ” mindset. So glad to see people doing silly things that in fact require skill. This is why I come to hackernews. Keep up great work with this wonderful attitude!
Not sure why you need to put down entrepreneurs while praising this kid. Hacking a company together is really hard. Like tech hacking, it requires intelligence, creativity, and persistence. There's no reason we can't read about and respect both on this site.
entrepreneurship today in particular in tech often tries to capitalise on the latter rather than the former, at least most of the time. Adopting the aesthetics of hacker culture to further institutions that could not be more damaging to an open ecosystem is already more common than actual 'hacking'.
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Not sure why you need to put down entrepreneurs while praising this kid. Hacking a company together is really hard. Like tech hacking, it requires intelligence, creativity, and persistence. There's no reason we can't read about and respect both on this site.
hacking culture was not just about the skills it takes to participate, it was also about values. One of them, openness and sharing information. open protocols over closed walls. entrepreneurship today in particular in tech often tries to capitalise on the latter rather than the former, at least most of the time. Adopting the aesthetics of hacker culture to further institutions that could not be more damaging to an op…
Business inherently relies on secrecy (proprietary stuff). Hackers try to make secret things open.
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The concern is in the appropriation of the term 'hacker'. He's not putting anything or anyone down, he's saying that this is hacking, and MBA posts of acronym soup aren't. I think his implied conclusion is probably wrong-ish (both are arguably right for HN, even if I vastly prefer this), but he's right in that this is hacking.
One could argue WeWork hacked unicorns.
In my opinion, the gp’s discussion is one worth having.
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hacking culture was not just about the skills it takes to participate, it was also about values. One of them, openness and sharing information. open protocols over closed walls. entrepreneurship today in particular in tech often tries to capitalise on the latter rather than the former, at least most of the time. Adopting the aesthetics of hacker culture to further institutions that could not be more damaging to an op…
They seem to be antithetical ideas somehow. Business inherently relies on secrecy (proprietary stuff). Hackers try to make secret things open.
And to me this is the essence of hacking and hacker culture, not “how do I create MVP from my idea and become an entrepreneur” or “this and that in company XYZ” mindset. So glad to see people doing silly things that in fact require skill. This is why I come to hackernews. Keep up great work with this wonderful attitude!
Not sure why you need to put down entrepreneurs while praising this kid. Hacking a company together is really hard. Like tech hacking, it requires intelligence, creativity, and persistence. There's no reason we can't read about and respect both on this site.
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But please don't try it on a real road. Find a spot where it can't endanger fellows. It's possible to find those places.
There's hundreds of people using these on public roadways. Check out the official Discord and the various Community Discords centered around it.
In addition to running on a laptop, openpilot also runs on a phone for easy mounting in your car.
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Not sure why you need to put down entrepreneurs while praising this kid. Hacking a company together is really hard. Like tech hacking, it requires intelligence, creativity, and persistence. There's no reason we can't read about and respect both on this site.
The concern is in the appropriation of the term 'hacker'. He's not putting anything or anyone down, he's saying that this is hacking, and MBA posts of acronym soup aren't. I think his implied conclusion is probably wrong-ish (both are arguably right for HN, even if I vastly prefer this), but he's right in that this is hacking.
Let's all give this 12 year old kid some applause. Me water-cooling my xbox 360 (yes, and I wasn't alone in doing so) at 13 felt cool, but this is on another level.
Not saying it can't be done as an adult, just harder to get that time and unbroken/unlimited focus.
And to me this is the essence of hacking and hacker culture, not “how do I create MVP from my idea and become an entrepreneur” or “this and that in company XYZ” mindset. So glad to see people doing silly things that in fact require skill. This is why I come to hackernews. Keep up great work with this wonderful attitude!
tl;dr is that people are now more motivated by the idea of being an entrepreneur than by having a great business concept.