I am with you but unfortunately the sense of "hacker" here is closer to what it is in "hackaton".

A "hackaton" is an event where ivy league students compete to write sloppy code using APIs from different corporations. They also get branded t-shirts and free redbull (paid by said corporations).

You might have a misunderstanding of the term "hacker".

The historical hacker culture was not exactly friendly towards large corporations and "suits" in general.

Unfortunately, the historical hacker culture is not the hacker culture for which this forum was created. Watching the culture clashes when expectations meet reality is always a hoot.

I heard about this community about a decade ago through the respect being paid to a legendary hacker from the (nineties?) I believe so I guess the forum adopted the culture. It sure is as close as I got to them, reading obituary threads, with folks telling tales of yore.