[immibis]

Common misconception. HN uses "hacker" as in "the people who do the work that makes Y Combinator rich" rather than "someone who plays with technology". HN hackers are contrasted with CEOs and so on - people whose job is not the on-the-ground work.

[aleph_minus_one]

> HN uses "hacker" as in "the people who do the work that makes Y Combinator rich" rather than "someone who plays with technology"

I do believe that originally Y Combinator indeed did celebrate the people who play with technology, but I guess over the many years the focus has shifted.

[monerozcash]

Well, HN was originally "Startup News". https://news.ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html

You can also look at the posts from the first day :) https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09