They should have named it CrackWars...
Hacking is not about breaking into computer systems, unless you're ignorant about the true meaning of the word.
Hacking is not about breaking into computer systems
Everyone at HN already knows this and has heard it repeated ad nauseam. No one else cares, and your attempts to correct them will do little beyond branding you as an angry nerd. If you must persist in your sisyphean effort, at least realize that you are doomed to failure. Language is shaped by common usage, not edict.
rambling: i like to think i've found the awesomeness that is hacker news (and ycombinator) despite poor naming choices. the 'y' in ycombinator combined with photos of men and combined with the classical hacker culture really lowered my expectations for this community....then i discovered it was totally different. ps - even knowing lambda calculus and fixed point calculations, i still half thought the choice of 'y' was ostentatiously male. on the other hand, it wouldn't be the first time i had a skewed perspective of language and culture.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5464925144369700635#