[effingwewt]

I wish dang could see your comment. Many times I've thought 'I cant downvote and that's fine, if I disagree I can say why.'

This should be site-wide. No need for bullshit numbers just discussion.

Hackers used to be the outliers, the nerds, the outcasts. We came together and became a community (not here, this was 80s).

But now it feels as co-opted as everything else. Its cool and hip to be nerdy, we now have things like brogrammers.

I once had a journalism professor insist to me that hackers were people who knew things about computers, and could get illegal unrestricted access. I tried to explain about phone phreaking and such, social engineering, black and white hats, and direct him to the Wikipedia articles. I was told I was being disruptive

Maybe I was but I gave real information instead of tv tropes.

HN is starting to feel like that. People less and less want information, they just want to feel good.