Comment by belter
1 day ago
The first one is indeed fascinating...almost deserving of its HN post :-)
It has been submitted six times in the last 10 months, with a grand total of 1 comment...I though this site had Hacker in the title...
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgfw.report%2Fpublica...
Common misconception. HN uses "hacker" as in "the people who do the work that makes Y Combinator rich" rather than "someone who plays with technology". HN hackers are contrasted with CEOs and so on - people whose job is not the on-the-ground work.
> HN uses "hacker" as in "the people who do the work that makes Y Combinator rich" rather than "someone who plays with technology"
I do believe that originally Y Combinator indeed did celebrate the people who play with technology, but I guess over the many years the focus has shifted.
Well, HN was originally "Startup News". https://news.ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html
You can also look at the posts from the first day :) https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09