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Re:Hacking the meta ray-ban smartglasses by no-dr-onboard on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:36PM (#50447855)
"hack" on hackernews essentially means "I used my computer to do something". The overwhelming population of people here aren't security engineers, but rather developers.
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Re:Hacking the meta ray-ban smartglasses by mzajc on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:38PM (#50447875)
I considered that, but the mentions of pwn2own and the bug bounty program has me thinking "hack" is used in the security/mainstream sense.
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Re:Hacking the meta ray-ban smartglasses by serioussecurity on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:33PM (#50448767)
Hack as a term predates the concept of cyber security. It was originally "a quick and dirty solution that is clever"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hack

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