[axaxs]

I'm not sure I agree. I think 'hacked' is widely enough known with its negative connotation. If Google posted a blog titled 'We got hacked', everyone would immediately click on it and their heart probably skip a beat. And in English it only makes sense that who hacks, but a hacker.

Regardless of original meaning, as happens with language, words definitions change based on usage and common understanding. I think the 'hacker' battle has been lost, and those examples you listed should use a different term that would be more easily adopted.

[wutbrodo]

Fwiw, I started reading Hacker News ~8 years ago, fresh out of a CS degree and working in tech, and it was my first exposure to a word sense of hacking other than illegal access. I've used the term pretty differently in the years since, but I think the battle for the mainstream meaning of the word was lost long ago.