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You do realize you are posting this comment on a site called Hacker News?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker

Also just to be thorough there is the dictionary definition of hacker. Your definition came in at 4th place.

I don't know where did you get that quote from but it describes "crackers". This is what hackers are all about: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

Whom are you quoting? It's really confusing as I thought you must be quoting the article. Surely if you are commenting on a site called Hacker News you know there is more than one definition of "Hacker".

Technically such a person should be called a cracker, no? A hacker is just someone who hacks on things. Where is this pop definition from?

troll level extreme is all I can think about.. If thats not the case then clueless is the only other way to describe this.