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by Aegean
6027 days ago
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Now that this subject is open, let me say it: I don't think the term hacker really reflects the concept of Hacker News. Startups are focused on entrepreneurship and revenue, there is a hacker side to it but the hacker aspect is not the central point. If there would be a real hacker news, building exceptional or interesting technology would be more of a central point than entrepreneurship. E.g. Grand Challenge, or some new technology that would change the way internet works. |
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Sure, but what one word could? I'm not sure there's any word that you could replace it with that would work better.
The mandate of the site is "stuff that would be interesting to a hacker; i.e. an intelligent person who tinkers."
"Exceptional or interesting technology" is 100% on-topic. Please submit some more of it! This site isn't necessarily meant to be "entrepreneur news". One may ask why, therefore, there are so many business-centric articles; I think it's probably because there's a critical mass of YC people here (both funded entrepreneurs, potential applicants, and interested fans). The community works with a lot of different technologies, and a lot of different hobbies which wax and wane over time, but YC people are by definition very interested in business and they're interested right now.