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