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Why Is Hacker News Called *Hacker* News?

1 points by MJeevas ↗ HN
You see, I'm not an old timer, but still old enough... like I was born in the late 1980s.

Why is this called Hackernews? Where's the "hacker" or "hack" here? Honest question!

Because I only read "X invested in Y" or "Y funder Z". Lot's of startup culture, sprinkled with some IT.

Where is the hack? Where are the hackers? (I know, but I won't tell you ^^)

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They use it to get googled. If you want a site that actually cares about hacking, then go here https://hackaday.com

You won’t find bs investing/blogging crap there.

mtmail
> They use it to get googled.

HN is a forum that doesn't show ads, doesn't advertise itself, doesn't do anything active to grow (as far as I know). It doesn't set HTML meta tags, no sitemap either.

100100010001
Umm, what you said doesn’t have anything to do with what I said. If a person googles “hacker news” this is the first thing that comes up even though there isn’t a whole lot about hacking here. It should really be called tech news or startup news.