Note for the hacker crowd: they don't mean free as in speech. They mean free as in beer that fell off a truck.

flexagoon 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"Beer that fell off a truck" has a somewhat negative connotation, but FMHY-listed sites are generally not only free, but also high quality, especially the starred ones. Nowadays when I'm looking for a service to do something I just search FMHY instead of a search engine. Much better results.

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jl6 5 hours ago | parent [-]

“Fell off the back of a truck” is a euphemism for stolen goods; it’s not so much about quality (indeed warez releases are often stripped of ads/launchers/annoyances, rendering them very high quality).

	▲	vntok 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Copying Is Not Theft https://youtu.be/IeTybKL1pM4?si=TlFbbK8Z9q4s-hut

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stackghost 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles.

Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of course it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity.

Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh.

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dudefeliciano 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

VC "hackers" still think that information is free and fuck corporations, just as long as it's not "their" information or "their" corporation

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redrove 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s long gone, especially around here. YC is YC.

It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website.

	▲	stackghost 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website. It is sad. There are definitely some talented people here but the pervasive corporate bootlicking is pretty hard to take, at times. Certain usenet newsgroups had a similar vibe, once upon a time, but usenet couldn't solve the spam problem.

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akoboldfrying 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	staplers 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Meta, openai, google have a bridge to sell you

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numbers_guy 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They mean free as in a poem that can be recited by anyone who has listened to it previously.

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aardv44rk 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Speech isn't a medium in this context.