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HN has always had a certain respect for people and articles that seem particularly prescient. I suspect that the 2017 in the title does a lot to boost the upvotes and reduce the flags.

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Amusingly, the post is now flagged. So much for hacker spirit here.

Always remember the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" refers to Silicon Valley startups "hacking" capitalism and regulations, rather the anti-establishment hacker culture of the pre-web era. The resistance isn't here, and it's never going to be here.

That's quite wrong—pg, rtm, and tlb came out of the MIT/Cambridge hacker scene and used the word the same way everybody else there did.

(which is the original sense of the word and which, as everyone here hopefully knows, predates computers, and btw didn't originally have to do with breaking into closed systems)

It's from eight years ago almost exactly (a couple months off). Saying it references today's current events isn't prescient, it's "second verse, same as the first".

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