[Trasmatta]

> This is hacker news. Hackers generally do not like authoritarianism.

Counterpoint: I've seen many posters here that are highly supportive of Trump and Elon. Not to mention all of the "hackers" enlisted in the DOGE army.

[jazzyjackson]

When people bandied about "hacking the planet" I have to wonder what they were picturing if not subverting bureaucracies to accelerate technocratic progress

[Trasmatta]

The hacker ethos was never about installing an autocratic state