One of the best summaries I’ve read on the etymology of the word hack appeared in The New Yorker a few years ago.
The word itself generally has, in historical terms, a negative connotation (which is why programmers who try to break into networks and/or computers are known as hackers), and, since in reality its results are, for the most part, negative, that’s how we’ll look at the word in this article.
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