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		russelg 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lock-Picking Robot Sure, but in this case they definitely are a hacker still since they did write code to achieve this.

johnfn 3 days ago [–]

The comment I am responding to says that people should be amenable to lockpicking because it’s “hacker” news. But he’s using the wrong meaning of hacker. So the argument doesn’t hold.

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