[shultays]

Does anyone else really use "hack" in the way HN uses it, ie with its original meaning?

For your average person a hacker is a person in Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie that steals your facebook password.

For people in the industry a "hack" is a code that works but might be a placeholder/potentially dangerous code. The author would want to write a better version of it but perhaps is not able to due to time or design constraints

I don't think anyone other than HN using "hacker" in the way it mean to be, perhaps it is time to catch up with the time

[atherton33]

Literally everyone who uses the word "lifehack"

[herbst]

To be fair, thanks to lifehacks, growth hacks and whatever it seems hack slowly fades back into the original meaning. At least from my POV

[fzzzy]

Growth hacking