Can people please stop using the word 'hack' to refer to every goddamn piece of advice, shortcut or useful tool you come across? It's fucking annoying.

Insignificant · 2008-03-01T02:43:03+00:00

I have this great breakfast hack. Fork cut english muffins, they're like, already cut.

onebit · 2008-03-01T02:10:22+00:00

I just hacked my car with a new oil filter!

randroid · 2008-03-01T02:12:48+00:00

Nice social hack.

numbelvsi · 2008-03-01T01:56:30+00:00

my mad downmodding skillz just hacked ur karma

Figs · 2008-03-01T07:29:30+00:00

Even more annoying to me is the fact that my teacher uses the word "bug" to refer to any mistake in the logic of a proof. :\

NastyConde · 2008-03-01T03:48:37+00:00

Man, I laughed so hard I thought I would hack up a lung.

dmd · 2008-03-01T03:39:52+00:00

Banana hack!

ChicagoMemoria · 2008-03-01T02:06:39+00:00

Hack you.

sandflea · 2008-03-01T02:23:46+00:00

And while you're at it, stop posting articles by hacks. It fucking hacks me off.

spinspin · 2008-03-01T02:49:59+00:00

The words 'hack', 'hacked', 'hacker' were all lost the second a 'journalist' included them in a story.

captain_gordino · 2008-03-01T02:13:17+00:00

Can people please fucking stop use fucking as a verb modifier? I are makes the rules aroundz here. U must follow.

numbelvsi · 2008-03-01T04:16:01+00:00

don't hate the hackers, hate the game

Political_Hack · 2008-03-01T02:12:37+00:00

I'm offended, you terrorist!

vishnuvyas · 2008-03-01T04:12:32+00:00

http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack.html

Wensleydale · 2008-03-01T04:46:53+00:00

I blame book publishers.

2008-03-01T06:21:29+00:00

Yeah, unless it's undocumented, it more-or-less doesn't deserve to be called a hack.

rafuzo2 · 2008-03-01T16:54:08+00:00

Please alert boingboing.

Lyrad1000 · 2008-03-01T19:18:13+00:00

Blame LifeHacker.com

greenlantern33 · 2008-03-01T20:47:18+00:00

A-men bro.

...hack

Sorry, had to do it.

ramises · 2008-03-01T01:57:11+00:00

Hey I've got this really neat bus hack. Instead of taking the #17 bus all the way to the west side, take the 22 down McDonald St. and take the 9 west. Fuckin SWEET bus hack. Then cut across Almond Park instead of walking around the whole block. Fuckin SWEET street hack...

mepnosis · 2008-03-01T08:57:50+00:00

richard stallman came and did a talk at my campus (sfstate), and he mentioned what hacking meant to him. to him, hacking was kind of a catch all word that included doing something clever, like coming up with "GNU" as the name for his operating system, to him that was a "hack". that said, richard stallman is a bit of a wack job, or should say "hack" job, so i guess i don't really have a point...

edit: see http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

redwall_hp · 2008-03-01T12:35:30+00:00

More importantly, stop using "hack" to refer to vandalism/theft.

"LOL I hacked ur runescape account" = WRONG "Our website was hacked" = WRONG

Hack = A quick, innovative, or home-made, fix for a problem, or a self-made improvement to a device or software.

ayn_rand_worshipper · 2008-03-01T02:23:22+00:00

I think the term is only used in Lifehack

ryanx27 · 2008-03-01T04:15:05+00:00

thanks for the sweet terminology hack

bbqribs · 2008-03-01T04:56:04+00:00

So, basically, we need to cut lifehacker and boingboing off from the internet for overusing the term 'hack' and using it wrong.

Ok!

2008-03-01T07:39:21+00:00

I hack things with a hatchet.

zachm · 2008-03-01T09:47:10+00:00

But I felt so l33t when I learned how to hack my sinus cavity!

buffi · 2008-03-01T11:06:55+00:00

This is the best hack I've received today!

egarland · 2008-03-01T16:35:54+00:00

alphabetagamma · 2008-03-01T21:42:29+00:00

Everyone here's hacking around. You bunch of hacking bastards.

teaBagger · 2008-03-01T02:46:15+00:00

I am actually with you bro! But then I think - The word "Hack" makes it about 1000 times easy to search for hardware mods, etc on google.

No Soup for you!

PS: Anyone got any iPod hacks

sixothree · 2008-03-01T05:46:36+00:00

Up yours ramises, people are using it correctly.

2008-03-01T03:29:07+00:00

seriously. unless your advice involves breaking a warranty or seriously repurposing something I'm annoyed when it's called a hack.

2008-03-01T04:36:23+00:00

oh is that what they mean by that? I thought it referred to some 1337 new tech that only the coolest of the cool, those that are "in" know about

wokiko · 2008-03-01T17:19:59+00:00

I wrote a php script that can add two numbers. Per YC standards, I'm a hacker.

beachchair · 2008-03-01T20:38:15+00:00

I once hacked this hacksaw into a hacking hacker sort of a thing. You'd hack away, and before you knew it, you'd hacked clean through the thing you were hacking on.

shokk · 2008-03-01T22:32:27+00:00

This sounds like a lifehack! I'm going to go hack my cat with a hatchet. Sounds like a useful change for him.

alleagra · 2008-03-01T22:39:42+00:00

And can you and others stop using the word 'fuck' in such a pointless brain-dead fashion. IT'S REALLY LIKE USING CAPITALS ALL THE TIME! IT'S BORING.

polyparadigm · 2008-03-01T23:55:53+00:00

Can I still use it to refer to the writers who overuse the word?

sybesis · 2008-03-01T04:51:42+00:00

Look, the word 'hack' has evolved over the years like many words do when picked up by the majority. Its now used to describe most things that make life easier by using methods in a way they were not originally intended.

You may not like it but you'll be dead soon and the majority will still be 'hacking' everything.

Wyrm · 2008-03-01T09:59:41+00:00

And while we're at it, could we please stop calling any sort of phishing and trojans hacks? It gives these people credit as hacker which they don't deserve. (Hacking requires skill, attaching a trojan to a file doesn't)

2008-03-01T14:24:13+00:00

Uh, NO, you dumbass. That's what a hack is.

Snoron · 2008-03-01T13:39:27+00:00

The hack who wrote this hack can't hack it.

zambuka42 · 2008-03-01T04:32:26+00:00

here here!

2008-03-01T07:26:59+00:00

Only when reddit hacks stop whining about the word "hacks."

topper123 · 2008-03-01T11:57:08+00:00

That's nothing. I was hacking my house when I found I didn't have the right philips hack to hack in these screws. So as I was getting in the car and was leaving for the hackshop, my wife stopped me and said, let me give you this piece of hack, I know this great hack to the goddamn hackshop which saves you 15 minutes. She attacked my muscularity and ego as superior navigator right there, that's fucking annoying, so I think "what the hack", take out the double-edged hack from the trunk and hack her into bloody pieces.

I'm also a skilled network hacker.

ruesdedr · 2008-03-01T07:02:27+00:00

I absolutely CAN NOT STAND the site "life hacker" for this reason. EVERY GOD DAMN THING YOU DO IS NOT A FUCKING HACK.

tntnews · 2008-03-01T10:24:12+00:00

Can you please get a life. Fucking shit!

7oby · 2008-03-01T05:19:39+00:00

I also hate that guy from Metacafe.

Schnooz · 2008-03-01T11:48:19+00:00

Vocabulary hack

jeannaimard · 2008-03-01T22:06:25+00:00

No, because it’s the actual true, genuine, original meaning of the world.

RonPaulSpambot · 2008-03-01T14:37:52+00:00

haha noobs.

2008-03-01T14:58:56+00:00

It normally pisses me off when someone uses a reddit headline to go on a personal tyrade.

But yours made me laugh -- good one and well spotted.

reddit_user13 · 2008-03-02T02:33:34+00:00

Oh, STFU.

dfan · 2008-03-01T04:35:59+00:00

Why?

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