The Glider: A Universal Hacker Emblem

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by twoz • 17 years ago

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cma• 17 years ago

We need this like politics needed the American flag pin.

spectre• 17 years ago

Could we wear this as pin?

PieSquared• 17 years ago

I sense sarcasm, but, being slightly young, don't get the reference to American flag pins. Could you explain? Thanks.

patio11• 17 years ago

Some American politicians have a habit of wearing a small pin in the shape of an American flag on their lapel. It is an on-again, off-again fashion which became seriously on-again after September 11th. The presence/absence of a flag pin, and stated reasons for the presence/absence, was a political issue in Obama's presidential campaign, among others.

silentbicycle• 17 years ago

This is just asking for a bunch of territorial squabbling about who is a real hacker and who is a poser. Arguments about identity tend to produce lots of heat and very little light.

(As to Eric S. Raymond and his incessant volunteering to speak for all hackers: No comment.)

sketerpot• 17 years ago

It's also explicitly not asking for that. I quote from TFA:

> When you put the glider emblem on your web page, or wear it on clothing, or display it in some other way, you are visibly associating yourself with the hacker culture. This is not quite the same thing as claiming to be a hacker yourself -- that is a title of honor that generally has to be conferred by others rather than self-assumed. But by using this emblem, you express sympathy with hackers' goals, hackers' values, and the hacker way of living.

nfriedly• 17 years ago

I actually put one of these on my site back when I was 16 and thought it was cool. Apparently someone else didn't think I was 'hacker enough.' It was the only time I ever had my site defaced :/

0xdefec8• 17 years ago

you must support terrorism _and_ love Windows.

akkartik• 17 years ago

I made it my favicon just so rails stopped dropping that whole class of errors into my logs http://akkartik.name

Oompa• 17 years ago

Awesome. Now I need a patch of it for my backpack, along with my nerd merit badges.

huhtenberg• 17 years ago

Makes a great bumper sticker too - http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6499/glider.jpg :)

(edit) converted to jpg

apsurd• 17 years ago

Super huge image alert!!

Hot mother of God can you please use your hacker skills and compress that image. It's nearly 1.5 megs

Steve0• 17 years ago

Easy there: 150.99 KB (154611 bytes)

dmoney• 17 years ago

If hackers use the glider, what are Game of Life enthusiasts supposed to use?

silentOpen• 17 years ago

Spaceships?

science4sail• 17 years ago

Game-of-Life Turing Machines?

aardvark• 17 years ago

Bytecode instructions?

seejay2• 17 years ago

Never thought this would be famous in "Hacker News" coz this isn't quite the latest news :D

No offense to the people who didn't know about it but isn't this kinda old news to the people aware of the Hacker Culture?

beta• 17 years ago

I try my very hardest to ignore any notion of "Hacker Culture"

seejay2• 17 years ago

Now if you excuse me, I gotta go and try submitting the "Hacker Manifesto" to Hacker news ;)

10ren• 17 years ago

I shall proudly display the absence of this logo to signify my solidarity with non-conformist hackers everywhere.

seiji• 17 years ago

We think Very Proper Dog outranks Glider: http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/f/1242009351/abs-hackerdojo-cl...

peregrine• 17 years ago

Hacker sub-culture doesn't need logos so it can become mainstream and cool.

pookleblinky• 17 years ago

I always considered a big, threateningly bushy beard to be the de facto symbol of hackerdom.

Just try imagining RMS without his beard.

vertis• 17 years ago

The definition of 'news' should be googled by anyone who voted this up. This is not recent!

The Glider: A Universal Hacker Emblem

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