Comment by thanatropism

There was a time when "hacker" meant "a wizard's wizard";

and a time where it meant a digital vandal over POTS lines;

and a time where reclaiming the word "hacker" became fashionable;

and important computer hackers began quietly wearing the word;

and then there was the time where marketers became growth hackers and musicians became harmony hackers.

But the digital vandals never fully wrested away the word from AI lab wizards;

Ruby on Rails hackers never recovered it from the digital vandals;

and harmony hackers never even intended to break away from this sedimentation of connotation;

and investment funds and hackers both posted and read "hacker news";

and no one disavows anything.