[stackghost]

When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles.

Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of course it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity.

Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh.

[dudefeliciano]

VC "hackers" still think that information is free and fuck corporations, just as long as it's not "their" information or "their" corporation

[redrove]

That’s long gone, especially around here. YC is YC.

It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website.

[stackghost]

>It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website.

It is sad. There are definitely some talented people here but the pervasive corporate bootlicking is pretty hard to take, at times.

Certain usenet newsgroups had a similar vibe, once upon a time, but usenet couldn't solve the spam problem.

[vovavili]

Ycombinator is far from your average venture capital rent-seeking company. I am surprised that a person who thinks this way without added nuance would spent time on this website.