Does anyone else really use "hack" in the way HN uses it, ie with its original meaning?
For your average person a hacker is a person in Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie that steals your facebook password.
For people in the industry a "hack" is a code that works but might be a placeholder/potentially dangerous code. The author would want to write a better version of it but perhaps is not able to due to time or design constraints
I don't think anyone other than HN using "hacker" in the way it mean to be, perhaps it is time to catch up with the time