Hacker News is about hacking too, in the original sense of the word. It's a gathering place for people to indulge in curiosity with fellow curious people.

As much as we discuss Uber and self driving cars and the gig econony, it's also about hacking in the sense of driving taxis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation#In_w...

https://smallbusiness.co.uk/hack-cabs-organic-car-service-25...

Hacking: cut with rough or heavy blows. "I watched them hack the branches"

First definition given by google. That was easy.

Ah yes, just let me get out my 'debugging' machete. After all, I keep a widlarizer on my bench for troubleshooting problematic circuits.

"How do you WIDLARIZE something? You take it over to the anvil part of the vice, and you beat on it with a hammer, until it is all crunched down to tiny little pieces, so small that you don’t even have to sweep it off the floor"

>>https://hackaday.com/2014/04/08/heroes-of-hardware-revolutio...

Doing a job incompetently.