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wasn't it stated multiple times that the people who break into computer systems are not to be called "hackers" but "crackers"?

Yes, here. But not in the Wall Street Journal. To everybody in the world bar a few hundred of us here, they are using the correct terminology. It's probably best to let it go.

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Many would also argue that the majority of people that hang out here are not "hackers" but instead "developers that (mostly) know how to get shit done."

In their eyes, hacking is exploiting a weakness in a system to do something the system was not originally intended or designed to do.

But in the end, nobody cares.

> Many would also argue that the majority of people that hang out here are not "hackers" but instead "developers that (mostly) know how to get shit done."

yeah, but why is it called hacker news then?

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