We have different definitions of hacker.

I played around with LLMs... Found they aren't very useful. Slapping a project together to ship isn't what hacking is about.

Hacking is about deeply understanding what is actually happening under the hood by playing around, taking it apart, rebuilding it.

When the craze started everyone here were out looking for ways to escape the safeties of the LLMs, or discussing how they are being built etc.

This comment thread is about using the technology to slap a thing together so you can sell it. There's no exploration of the topic at hand, there's no attempt to understand.

I'm trying to think of a decent analogy but can't think of one but this smacks of a certain type of friend who finds a technology you have been hacking on and makes it so unbearable that you actually just lose interest...

So almost every person on here is not a hacker since I’ve met very few people here who are knowledgeable about EE, computer architecture, compiler technology, or heck even how browsers work. Of course there are some, but HN is mostly about slapping together technology to sell your startup.

Don't correlate hackernews and YCombinator.

I am perfectly aware of the owner here but there is usually at least one or two posts a day here that has what I call a "hacker culture".