It is a book, "Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier". I seem to recall cross it hosted under mit.edu/~hacker/underground.txt or something like that

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contingencies 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://underground-book.net/download.php3

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hulitu 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Thanks. How the world evolved: "Also, if you're curious, view the WebMake source file (warning: this contains the entire book text and markup: 948k in total). "

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anthk 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I hate it. It destroys the original concept of hackers, with the original Jargon file, the best relase (1.5). Lisp and Forth hackers are the original thinkerers.

The Jargon File

https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt

https://hakmem.org/

These are actual hackers and hacks.

	▲	firefax a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>These are actual hackers [clicks] >The certificate for hakmem.org expired on 5/8/2021.
	▲	contingencies 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That ship had sailed well before the ~1997 launch of the book. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film) (1995) or http://www.takedown.com/ (1996)

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firefax 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah ok. Weird way to cite a book title.

	▲	aspenmayer 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Previously/related: In the Realm of the Hackers (2003) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281735