Comment by CobrastanJorji

4 days ago

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

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stackghost  4 days ago

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.

  • dudefeliciano  4 days ago

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

  • redrove  4 days ago

    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  4 days ago

      >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.

    • vovavili  3 days ago

      Ycombinator is far from your average venture capital rent-seeking company. I am surprised that a person who thinks this way without added nuance would spent time on this website.

flexagoon  4 days ago

"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.