This article uses the word "hacker" solely to mean activities like breaking into computer systems and conducting illegal business online. This is perhaps appropriate because in Chinese, the word is always translated as the soundalike "heike" (黑客) which literally means "dark guest", thus alluding to that same meaning. If you talk about, or are seen using, Hacker News in China, they will initially only think of you as being a criminal or wannabe criminal, despite the other definition of hacker as being anyone interested in tech and programming (according to Wikipedia and Paul Graham).
