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by encom 51 days ago
Hacks? In my Hacker News? The nerve!
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Are these hacks or cracks. I'd say the latter.
I wouldn't. It doesn't appear that anything was cracked. Rather they just reverse engineered the protocol.
That's a crack, but repurposing price tags to display things they weren't intended to is a hack.