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> I am a CS person. If the article is not readily consumable for a CS person why is it on a website called "Hacker News"? Seems like a bad submission if you ask me...

Like many before you, you appear to assume Hacker equates to the C in CS.

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Like the many that will, after me, assume Hacker to mean the C in CS. Technically, you are correct, and I agree. But I must point out, that actually, you are wrong - the general use of the word belongs to computers.

The word hacker isn't about computers. https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

Most people would have no idea about Richard Stallman, and I maintain that due to popular media the general public associate the word with computer technology.

This is Hacker News, not the general public. If we don’t know who Richard Stallman or what a hacker is, who should?

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