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The number of comments in here slandering the developer’s morality for picking locks is actually pretty surprising for a site literally called Hacker News. Every day there’s a story on the front page of some grey/white-hat showing off an exploit they found to infiltrate a site we all use. It’s an odd double standard.
But that isn't what "Hacker" means. Take it from pg, who named the site, 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199 > In the sense of the word that means people who write code, not people who break into things
The number of comments in here slandering the developer’s morality for picking locks is actually pretty surprising for a site literally called Hacker News. Every day there’s a story on the front page of some grey/white-hat showing off an exploit they found to infiltrate a site we all use. It’s an odd double standard.
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But that isn't what "Hacker" means. Take it from pg, who named the site, 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199 > In the sense of the word that means people who write code, not people who break into things
Sure, but in this case they definitely are a hacker still since they did write code to achieve this.
I've seen too many Lock-Picking Lawyer videos.
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Literally from the horse's mouth, 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199 > In the sense of the word that means people who write code, not people who break into things It would be like if you were going over a list of pros and cons and when you got to the cons some guy was like "wow, you work with criminals, huh?" Then you tell him not that sort of con and he says "yeah, typical nerd bickering". C'…
And yet it still isn't any more interesting to argue about.
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I haven't made any assumptions at all, reread what I said, then reread the replies. First one is a personal attack about being libertarian (an assumption), second one starts off as an attack too. I expressed a preference, in a light hearted way, hence the "hrm...". I come here for good faith debate and I'm genuinely grateful for it (I've said as much in other comments).
I think you mixed up different threads. Nobody called you a libertarian in this one. Sorry you’re having a bad day. Hope it gets better.
Tones of fun to work on
For my other projects check here: https://etinaude.dev/
So robots will replace lawyers.
rather inelegant, similar to an autodialer for safes.
i was hoping to see something that worked like a human lockpicker!