bartender here. studied biology in college, no formal CS/EE whatsoever. stumbled on paul graham's essays and that led me here. started reading slashdot back in 2003 and kinda gave up on it 3 or 4 years ago, to me HN is like slashdot 2.0 which is why I love it.
I'm not sure if I would consider myself a hacker, however I love seeing how things work and I do know just enough to be dangerous wrt all manner of topics that show up here