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You're reading Hacker News and you want to know why someone would bother reverse engineering a closed source platform?



To be fair, Hacker is weird misnomer in many ways. It's starutp-scene-connected-tech-heavy-news more than anything else.


Which can also be seen in the fact that the general consensus on startup-news is often the opposite of what the actual hackers, for example those who are in the CCC, think.


Oblio that's leet speak. hacker history (well and present) nothing that a google search won't clarify.


CCC = ?


Chaos Computer Club


> It's starutp-scene-connected-tech-heavy-news more than anything else.

Yes, and that's because it is a very powerful marketing tool for Paul Graham's huge YC business.


It used to be called Startup News.




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