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Comment by gue5t | Hacker News Reader

I think the headline is misleading. This seems to be an alliance of startup-oriented folks. Hackers would generally avoid the weasel-words and centralization: "virtual incubator" and reliance on a site that presents itself as more or less a monolith. I also don't see where investment and sponsorship fall into hacking. Computers are cheap enough that neither is really necessary to do interesting work, even if new hardware is required.

My guess is they said "hackers" when they meant "Hacker News readers".

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Word. It's nasty how HN is diluting the term "hacker" to include things like "an MBA dropout with an idea". The whole assumption that "if you're a hacker, of course you want to start a business" is just so far away from reality that it's silly.

I don't know, I regard it as pretty hackerish to solve 'the money problem' once off and spend the rest of your life hacking.

Getting crazy rich and becoming a rockstar entrepreneur, not so much, but automating the rent and bill problem once and for all by coding something to bring in money, just one in a long string of problems a 'hacker' might consider solving in their lifetime.

Hackers think outside the box, it's not about getting more money, it's about how to avoid needing it.

The use of the word "hacker" itself should be considered ballsy. (Though 3rd parties have diluted it enough to weaken the conviction the phrase allegedly once held.) To put "hackers" in the organization name implies that all members are wizardly to some extent.

But a good magician demonstrates through magic tricks and sleight of hand.

Not trying to be argumentative, but I think you may be misreading what the headline is really saying. The idea is an 'alliance', which by definition requires more than one person. Multiple 'hackers', not just 'hacker'. Some of us 'hackers' would like to work with other 'hackers' in order to build things that we cannot build alone.

Perhaps our understanding of the word 'hacker' is evolving to the word 'hackers'. And given your presence and comment here, aren't you by definition a "Hacker News reader"? Just sayin'

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