Are you being serious or is this satire? What an odd perspective to share on Hacker News. We're a bunch of nerds that take pleasure in understanding how things work when you take them apart, whether that's a physics concept or a washing machine. Or am I projecting an ethos?

Are we hackers? I see posters griping about the pointlessness of learning CS theory and other topics during their college on HN all the time.

No you’re not projecting they’re being weird.